Advance Parole

Travelling with Advance Parole is a very scary experience, but this forum helped me a lot with my anxiety during traveling so I want to share my experience. I am in the process of getting my GC (married to USC) waiting for the interview to be scheduled. I traveled to India for 3 weeks using my advance parole. On the way back, my husband joined me and we headed back to US and entered the customs at Seattle. It was relatively smooth experience.

I traveled with ANA airlines and at the Delhi airport during check-in, it took the agents a little while (25 minutes) to get me my boarding pass because they had to figure out how to do the paperwork for AP properly. So make sure you reach the airport way ahead of time to account for these delays as they will most likely happen.

When we landed in Seattle, I told the airport personnel about my AP, and they directed me and my husband to a line (shorter than the rest yay), and the officer took my docs and my husband's passport. He took my finger prints and picture, returned my husband's passport. He gave my documents (passport, AP, custom form) to another officer who escorted us to a secondary inspection. It was also the counter for global entry. We sat there and waited for about 15 minutes. Remember to not use your phone there. Then the officer called us. He asked us where we are coming from, how long we were there, why were we there, did we buy something there, are there any plants/meats in our luggage, where we lived in Seattle, where I worked in Seattle. Then he entered all this information in the system, ran background checks and stamped my passport and we were all set to go!

Makes me regret all the anxiety I had for this trip, it was quite smooth. I have a little overstay (under 180 days) and no criminal record. The officers were polite and helpful (despite the shutdown and not getting paid).

Let me know if anyone has any further questions, I would be happy to answer.