Taking a cruise to Hawaii that stops in Mexico before Advance Parole...??

[Loren Y 2,731]

Definitely a no on the cruise. It's not a problem leaving, but when you exit the cruise ship back here to the united states, or probably entering Hawaii you will have to go thru CBP at the entry point because you were out of the United States like other posters have said. They have no way of knowing if you left the ship anywhere before at one of it's stops or not. I Have have taken well over 30 cruises from just about every port in the United States, and always when you get off the ship onto US territory you will be going thru Customs. Since you don't have AP or a green card you will not be admitted, unless something drastic has changed in the past year or so that is how it still works. I have done Mexico, Alaska, Caribbean, Hawaiian, Italy and Spain cruises, and always coming back to the US or one of its territories via land, air, ship, hovercraft, dune buggy, motorcycle,  and plain old walking across I always had to enter CBP for an inspection, there is no way around it that I know of. On the Caribbean cruises you do have the Western Travel Initiative that allows US citizens the ability to travel from the US and back into the US with just their drivers license or state ID card, and a passport is not required, but that is US citizens only, and only in the Caribbean on cruises from Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Georgia, Texas, going to the Caribbean. That is not all the ports, but you get the idea.

Edited December 30, 2018 by Loren Y