Recent problems re-entering US on Advance Parole?

[kumakun 12]

Aloha kākou! Wondering if any VJers have recently experienced heightened problems re-entering the United States using Advance Parole? We are hoping to receive EAD and AP for my husband this month and have a trip to Japan to visit his family planned in late May. In light of, uh, recent political events, my husband is worried about being hassled or denied entry when we return to the US in early June. There's a chance he'll have his 2-year GC by then (Honolulu office seems to process faster than most field offices) and while he'd feel much better re-entering with a GC, we know neither doc guarantees re-entry. He has no criminal history nor has he ever experienced problems coming to the US, but we all know it's a different world now. Just wondering if anyone has been denied re-entry with AP or 2-year GC recently. We'd also love to hear recent positive re-entry stories too.  Mahalo!

[JohnE 57]

Are you talking about the combo card that you receive before the two year conditional green card?  If that is the case I can give you one thing that happened to my wife when she traveled out of the US on her combo card.  The problem is some airline employees do not understand or know anything about the combo card.  My wife was flying out of Atlanta and was almost denied checkin by an airline employee as they did not know or ever seen a combo card.  After some phone calls by the employee my wife was allowed to check in.  I called the airline's office in Mexico City and make sure the station agent knows about the combo card as we did not want any issues leaving Mexico City on the flight back.  My suggestion is call your airline to make sure they understand and it does not hurt to get a person's name and something in writing from the airline would be peace of mind (but that is just me).

 

 

[Ryan_Chialien 15]

We travelled on a combo card about a week ago for the first time.  We crossed one of the US/Canada borders by car.   They sent us in to secondary where someone put a parole form into my wife's passport.  The whole process from getting to the customs gate shack to being on our way took maybe 20 minutes.  They didn't ask any more questions then is typical when travelling with all US citizens.  They just sent us inside and the guy inside just said give me a few minutes and you'll be set.