Kurt y Dora

If you travel without the AP paperwork in hand for your return, USCIS considers that you abandoned the AOS process and you will not be allowed back into the country. Under no circumstance try to travel without the AP paperwork (Form I-512) in hand. When you get your I-797 NOA paperwork back acknowledging receipt of your I-131 application (at no additional cost presuming you filed the I-131 application when you filed for the I-485 AOS) it will tell you that you will hear back generallly within 60-90 days from receipt of your I-131 application. If you look at the timelines on this site for AP, you will see it's running about 66 days. We just received ours and the approval was granted 69 days after receipt of paperwork; it took another 9 days to actually receive the AP form, because they did not mail it until 5 days after the approval. If you have not yet signed up on the www.USCIS.gov site to set up an account and track your case status, you should do this. Good luck! Kurt