I-485 approved when not in the US

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You can travel on Advance Parole (I-131) when I-485 application is pending. What happens when your I-485 application gets approved when you are outside the US? Can you still use your I-131 to reenter? Or I-131 becomes invalid automatically when your I-485 application is approved? If so, how do you enter the US?

 

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You can still use your I-131 to re-enter if it is within its validity period. They will stamp your PP at the POE. By law, you have to be in the country at the time of filing of I-485 (there is no mention of at the time of approval, since the time of approval is not controlled by the applicant).