Question about AP

[GotPR?]

Yes, I wouldn't travel after long overstay even within the US territory either, especially by air going out of the US continent.
Airline could be diverted to other country's soil for whatever reason and thing gets complicated in such event.

 

[austriacus]

Even I know perfectly that PR is NOT a State it's a commonwealth of the US...I answered as I know, "I don't think that you need AP to travel to PR".

But anyway I wouldn't leave the "continental" US since even she can ask for an AP the 10 year ban can get over her head...we never know when the airline have some issues and instead to get through like a domestic flight you will get in the US like an international flight and that has happened in the past, of course there are other kind of process for those situations at the airport.

That's a very good point. Once, I entered the UK at a military airport and was bussed to London (got an entry and exit stamp in the passport) instead of transiting through the UK via Heathrow because the fog over London was so bad that our plane couldn't land there. I don't know how they would handle such issues as American passengers traveling without passports if a domestic flight gets diverted internationally.