Travel on combo card

[Cedars1974 1]

Just received her combo card yesterday. We filed for AOS on May 14th, 2019 and we were married in February. Has anyone had experience with travel and return into the US with a combo card while waiting for green card? I thought I remember hearing it's not recommended. Would love to take a short vacation while waiting. 

[payxibka 10,045]

1 minute ago, Cedars1974 said:

Just received her combo card yesterday. We filed for AOS on May 14th, 2019 and we were married in February. Has anyone had experience with travel and return into the US with a combo card while waiting for green card? I thought I remember hearing it's not recommended. Would love to take a short vacation while waiting. 

I would guess 1000's of people travel every month and return using AP card.

 

PS.   You posted in the k1 forum and this is not a k1 issue 

Edited November 4, 2019 by payxibka

[USS_Voyager 1,972]

25 minutes ago, Cedars1974 said:

Just received her combo card yesterday. We filed for AOS on May 14th, 2019 and we were married in February. Has anyone had experience with travel and return into the US with a combo card while waiting for green card? I thought I remember hearing it's not recommended. Would love to take a short vacation while waiting. 

Many many many people have traveled with the combo card and had no issue whatsoever, myself included. 

 

Just a couple of notes:

 

1. The standard procedure of the CBP is to send the combo card holder to secondary where they can verify your I-485 is still pending. Well, at least that was the case few years back. So do plan to spend about 1 hour or so in secondary depending on how busy they are. 

 

2. In some foreign countries, the check-in agents of the airlines might not be familiar with the combo card. Again that was few years back. They may go back and forth trying to understand what a combo card is and whether or not they should let your board the plane heading to the US. Worst case is the might make you sign a form that if you are denied entry to the US, you're responsible for your transportation back. 

[Cedars1974 1]

4 minutes ago, USS_Voyager said:

Many many many people have traveled with the combo card and had no issue whatsoever, myself included. 

 

Just a couple of notes:

 

1. The standard procedure of the CBP is to send the combo card holder to secondary where they can verify your I-485 is still pending. Well, at least that was the case few years back. So do plan to spend about 1 hour or so in secondary depending on how busy they are. 

 

2. In some foreign countries, the check-in agents of the airlines might not be familiar with the combo card. Again that was few years back. They may go back and forth trying to understand what a combo card is and whether or not they should let your board the plane heading to the US. Worst case is the might make you sign a form that if you are denied entry to the US, you're responsible for your transportation back. 

Thank you for that response. 

[Pitaya 2,577]

33 minutes ago, payxibka said:

I would guess 1000's of people travel every month and return using AP card.

 

PS.   You posted in the k1 forum and this is not a k1 issue 

Agree.  Time to move past the K1 forums.  EAD/AP combo card topics are generally  discussed in the Working and Traveling During US Immigration Forum.

 

https://www.visajourney.com/forums/forum/115-working-amp-traveling-during-us-immigration/

[Ryan H 3,812]

Moved from K1 Process & Procedures to Working & Traveling During US Immigration forum.