Help for AP application doubts

[can_card]

My H-1B visa will be expiring in 4 months. I have not filed AP when I filed my 485. Now, I am planning to file myself (first time - lawyer charges heavily for 4 of my family members). Appreciate, if some one clears my doubts.

1. What are the pros and cons of e-filing?
2. I do not know my indented departure date. I am applying for any emergency trip, if any. Can I mention “Do not know now” in the application form?
3. What should I write for expected length of stay, which I do not know now?
4. Can I mention “unexpected trip to home country for family meeting and some business travel out side USA” for the purpose of trip?
5. Can I make so many numbers of trips using the same AP form? Do I require to hold separate AP document for each trip. In this case, am I required to mention the number of trips, in the application form? I do not know how many numbers of trips I will make. Further, I may be frequently traveling to Mexico from CA (work related), that I may not know now.
6. I heard AP is valid for only one year. If I apply now, can I request the USCIS that the start dates of AP is the expiry date of my H1B? So that I can save 3 or 4 months time.


Thanks!

 

[ginnu]

My H-1B visa will be expiring in 4 months. I have not filed AP when I filed my 485. Now, I am planning to file myself (first time - lawyer charges heavily for 4 of my family members). Appreciate, if some one clears my doubts.
----------------- it is better to be on H1 and H4 if your I-140 is not approved and pending I-485 has not hit 180 days
1. What are the pros and cons of e-filing?
------------------Better peper file the AP so that officer has everything
2. I do not know my indented departure date. I am applying for any emergency trip, if any. Can I mention “Do not know now” in the application form?
---------- write any date they dont care
3. What should I write for expected length of stay, which I do not know now?
----------- write 3 months they dont care, AP will be for 1 year from the date they approve
4. Can I mention “unexpected trip to home country for family meeting and some business travel out side USA” for the purpose of trip?
------------- write: to visit parents, they dont care
5. Can I make so many numbers of trips using the same AP form?
---------- if you ask for Multiple entry and get AP for multipal trips
Do I require to hold separate AP document for each trip. In this case, am I required to mention the number of trips, in the application form?
----------no, fill up what is asked
I do not know how many numbers of trips I will make. Further, I may be frequently traveling to Mexico from CA (work related), that I may not know now.
6. I heard AP is valid for only one year.
--yes
If I apply now, can I request the USCIS that the start dates of AP is the expiry date of my H1B?
--no
So that I can save 3 or 4 months time.


Thanks!