AP travel experience and question

[Lyondellic 5]

My wife and I just returned from international travel using her AP/EAD combo card and I thought it may help others if we share our experience. We traveled from Colombia to Miami and, as expected, my wife was pulled aside for secondary inspection. I was allowed to accompany her to the waiting room. The agents already had my wife's passport but returned her AP/EAD combo card. She was told to present the AP/EAD combo card to the agent in the secondary inspection waiting area when called.  We waited for about 10 minutes before my wife's name was called. The agent asked to see her combo card and then returned her passport. We were then told that we were free to go. After leaving the secondary inspection area, we saw that the agent had stapled an AP document to my wife's passport, and that there was an AP stamp on one page of her passport as well. The whole experience was stressful, but uneventful. 

 

Question: why did they staple an AP document to my wife's passport and also place an AP stamp on one page? Will these stamps make future travel even easier?

 

Thanks!

[Larindra 9]

Hi I don't recall receiving a document they stapled into the passport. I traveled through Atlanta coming from Nicaragua in August and they put a stamp in my passport which stated that I was paroled in. Being pulled into secondary inspection is normal for Advance Parole and it might still happen on a Green Card as well. Thank you for sharing your experience