Advance Parole

This is how the trip went for us. My husband got his AP approved 08/20/17 thru 11/30/17. We went to his home country Mexico 09/23 to 09/25, flying out of Phoenix, AZ and going to Mexico City, Mexico. Going there was super easy because everyone spoke english and I had been to the airport before. We had a lay over of 6 hours in Guadalajara. The airport was was scary on the outside of the security check point. Everything was in Spanish which I do not speak and my husband is not the best Spanish speaker. We walked around and got some scary people looking at us. But once we got behind the security check point we felt much safer. There was all kinds of nationalities in the lounge and things were in English. The airport workers are not very nice and complete different experience than here in the USA. Once we got to Mexico City, it was 2 am there and pretty empty. Lots of people sleeping on floors but not scary at all. We visited my husbands family, which was nice!!! Got dropped off 6 hours before our flight back to Guadalajara because it is VERY dangerous to drive on the freeway at night. We went to the Volaris boarding desk to get our tickets. The lady asked for my passport, my husbands and his VISA saying he could go to America. We gave her the AP forms and she kept asking for a VISA. We explained this is all we have she said that it not enough. At this point we are freaking out thinking we are going to be stuck. After about 20 mins she comes back from speaking to her boss who said that is suffice t enough and gave us our tickets. I was pretty nervous thinking my husband wasn't coming home with me. So to go through that stress made me feel so in edge even more the rest of the way. We did out waiting for our flight got to Guadalajara and had another 4 hour wait. We tried taking turns sleeping but that was hard. We got on our flight back to Phoenix. That is when my nerves started getting worse. I just kept thinking what was going to happen. We have two kids at home and I am 5 months pregnant this is the only guy I have been with. He is my sweetheart I can't loose him. I know it would be out of my hands but as a Citizen I feel I have to protect him because this is his home just as much as mine. We landed and went through. The CBP Officer took our passports and ID's scanned mine and verified my husband's. Then made him take a picture and fingerprinted both hands. He then told me to have a seat and my husband needed to go with him. I was nervous about that because our lawyer explained everything very well but didn't say we would be separated. It took about 15-20 minutes for him to come out but felt like an enternity. He came out with a BIG smile. I knew at that point we were in the clear and he wasn't going nowhere!!! He said they had him sit down while they waited for his fingerprints to come back clear and stamped his papers and gave them to him told him God Bless and have a good day. Once he got out I saw the papers stamped but his passport was not. I told him the lawyer told us the passport is what is important to be stamped. We were nervous to go back but I knew we needed the passport stamped. Once we went back the CBP Officers laughed and said yes he does need that stamped and said sorry. They then realized they gave both AP papers back to us so asked for one back. The gentleman officer said "man you sir are on top of your things, we should hire you to do this" they all laughed and said we were good Togo. We had the LONGEST walk out of the airport and it felt like we ran not walked. Once we got out I could not stop smiling and telling my husband we made it, your safe, I love you!!! Over all it wasn't bad just super scary!!! People here before leaving told us not to go and we even second guessed our trip up to the second day before leaving I was going to cancel our tickets. And to be honest if it was up to me we wouldn't have went. I was too scared to leave and my husband not come back with me. We only kept our tickets because my husband said we had spent so much money already on this process we have to give it a shot. I am so glad now knowing he is safe that we went. The officers are not mean at all and don't even ask questions. As long as you go during the time your AP is good for and don't have anything bad on your back ground I recommend going. It is scary but only because of the unknown. Go and take advantage of the opportunity of having an AP.