My wife's AP is finally approved and arrived in the mail today, it took just under 2 months to get hers. Now we can start planning for our trip back in June...

In case you were wondering, we did NOT list the reason to apply for AP in our I-131 application as it was filed together with I-485. We saw several people in this site didn't and still got their AP, so we followed their examples.

On the AP itself (form I-512L), just above the check box for "Approved", it says:
"Each parole period shall not exceed one year from the date of parole at the port-of-entry."
All in lower case, no bold face or underline.
What does this sentence mean? At first we thought it means the person uses AP can spend up to a year abroad before returning to the US on the AP, then I thought that's too good to be true, any ideas?

Thanks,
Michael

Congratulations, that is great news.


Mary

Congratulations

Congratulations!

I haven't received my AP, but I'm pretty sure that's what it means.
I'd take that to mean you can be out of country for up to 1 year.
I'm sure the POE officer will tell ya

Or someone else one here who has been through it.

Congrats and let's hope they are on a roll!

congrats

Congrats

congratulations!

i had no idea one could send apply for AP with the AOS ! is this common?
they are both sent to the closest district office, correct?

any additional information would be greatly appreciated. i am sending out my AOS really soon.

cheers!

Congrats...

To Vegangirl,

AP is only needed if you need to travel abroad during the status adjust period (before conditional green card). It's really a personal choice. We sent everything to the Chicago Lockbox address like everyone else.

The only potential downside is if you apply for AP, EAD and AOS, and the AOS is approved before AP or EAD (which is pretty rare), then you just wasted the $$$ on AP or EAD. However, we won't complain if that happens to us for the obvious reasons.

Michael

Wonderful news. Congratulations!

congrats