AP entry query
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I entered at JFK earlier this month. The immigration officer took mine and my wife\'s passports, Advance Paroles, filled out new I94\'s. She looked at them and then put them in a plastic envelope, handed it back and asked us to go to Room A (?). Before entering the room an orderly took the envelop from us and handed to an officer behind a counter in that room and asked us sit down in the chairs in that room. Thre offcer checked the documents, checked things in his computer for about 5-7 minutes and then stamped Paroled until indef (I think it means indefinite). Asked me to take the documents from him. That\'s it!
He also suggested me to always have current advance parole for future travel also, otherwise he said, I\'ll have to refile my I485.
I entered at JFK earlier this month. The immigration officer took mine and my wife\'s passports, Advance Paroles, filled out new I94\'s. She looked at them and then put them in a plastic envelope, handed it back and asked us to go to Room A (?). Before entering the room an orderly took the envelop from us and handed to an officer behind a counter in that room and asked us sit down in the chairs in that room. Thre offcer checked the documents, checked things in his computer for about 5-7 minutes and then stamped Paroled until indef (I think it means indefinite). Asked me to take the documents from him. That\'s it!
He also suggested me to always have current advance parole for future travel also, otherwise he said, I\'ll have to refile my I485.
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Due to my travel at work, I have to travel through a number of ports of entry.... so much so that both my AP documents (one expired nearly a year ago) were and are beyond full of stamps indef stamps. Each port of entry will follow the procedure that 485/Waiter outlined, some with or without the plastic envelop
It is the standard procedure.
There are some port-of-entries in Canada (and this changes periodically), that do not carry out this lengthy procedure if you have been in Canada less than 24 hours. Upon asking the question to the "Port of Entry Officer" he responded by saying that this is determined at the discretion of the "Port of Entry Manager".
One port of entry did not even take me to the room, they just stamped the passport and did all the procedure right there on the desk (probably because I was the last one off the aircraft with a broken foot on crutches, and she did not want me to walk to the room
Basically, if you have all your papers in order.... (1) Passport, (2) AP, (3) EAD Card (sometimes), (4) I-94 completed, (5) Customs document completed and (6) I-485 receipt notice (rarely - but just in case) you are all set, assuming you are not a wanted criminal in the US
Due to my travel at work, I have to travel through a number of ports of entry.... so much so that both my AP documents (one expired nearly a year ago) were and are beyond full of stamps indef stamps. Each port of entry will follow the procedure that 485/Waiter outlined, some with or without the plastic envelop
It is the standard procedure. There are some port-of-entries in Canada (and this changes periodically), that do not carry out this lengthy procedure if you have been in Canada less than 24 hours. Upon asking the question to the "Port of Entry Officer" he responded by saying that this is determined at the discretion of the "Port of Entry Manager".
One port of entry did not even take me to the room, they just stamped the passport and did all the procedure right there on the desk (probably because I was the last one off the aircraft with a broken foot on crutches, and she did not want me to walk to the room
Basically, if you have all your papers in order.... (1) Passport, (2) AP, (3) EAD Card (sometimes), (4) I-94 completed, (5) Customs document completed and (6) I-485 receipt notice (rarely - but just in case) you are all set, assuming you are not a wanted criminal in the US
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Due to my travel at work, I have to travel through a number of ports of entry.... so much so that both my AP documents (one expired nearly a year ago) were and are beyond full of stamps indef stamps. Each port of entry will follow the procedure that 485/Waiter outlined, some with or without the plastic envelop It is the standard procedure.
There are some port-of-entries in Canada (and this changes periodically), that do not carry out this lengthy procedure if you have been in Canada less than 24 hours. Upon asking the question to the "Port of Entry Officer" he responded by saying that this is determined at the discretion of the "Port of Entry Manager".
One port of entry did not even take me to the room, they just stamped the passport and did all the procedure right there on the desk (probably because I was the last one off the aircraft with a broken foot on crutches, and she did not want me to walk to the room
Basically, if you have all your papers in order.... (1) Passport, (2) AP, (3) EAD Card (sometimes), (4) I-94 completed, (5) Customs document completed and (6) I-485 receipt notice (rarely - but just in case) you are all set, assuming you are not a wanted criminal in the US This is just my experience of having about 27 entry stamps on the first AP document and 21 on the second one yet.
Due to my travel at work, I have to travel through a number of ports of entry.... so much so that both my AP documents (one expired nearly a year ago) were and are beyond full of stamps indef stamps. Each port of entry will follow the procedure that 485/Waiter outlined, some with or without the plastic envelop
It is the standard procedure. There are some port-of-entries in Canada (and this changes periodically), that do not carry out this lengthy procedure if you have been in Canada less than 24 hours. Upon asking the question to the "Port of Entry Officer" he responded by saying that this is determined at the discretion of the "Port of Entry Manager".
One port of entry did not even take me to the room, they just stamped the passport and did all the procedure right there on the desk (probably because I was the last one off the aircraft with a broken foot on crutches, and she did not want me to walk to the room
Basically, if you have all your papers in order.... (1) Passport, (2) AP, (3) EAD Card (sometimes), (4) I-94 completed, (5) Customs document completed and (6) I-485 receipt notice (rarely - but just in case) you are all set, assuming you are not a wanted criminal in the US
This is just my experience of having about 27 entry stamps on the first AP document and 21 on the second one yet.