Enter your Family Name, Given Name and Middle Name exactly according to your current legal identity records.

Provide your actual physical address, including In Care Of Name if applicable, street number and name, apartment, suite or floor, city or town, state, ZIP Code, province, postal code and country as applicable.

Enter your A-Number if one has been assigned to you. Do not confuse the A-Number with a USCIS receipt number.

Enter the country where you were born.

Enter your current country of citizenship. If your citizenship history is more complicated, use the information required by the current USCIS instructions.

Enter the immigration classification under which you were admitted or the applicable class shown on your immigration records.

Enter your actual date of birth exactly as supported by your identity documents.

Enter your U.S. Social Security Number if one has been issued. Do not enter a foreign identification or tax number.

A Reentry Permit is generally requested by a lawful permanent resident or conditional permanent resident who expects to travel outside the United States and wants documentation for returning during the permit's validity.

A Refugee Travel Document may be used by qualifying refugees, asylees and certain lawful permanent residents who obtained permanent residence based on refugee or asylee status.

Select the applicable Advance Parole request when you are currently inside the United States and have a qualifying immigration basis to request authorization to travel and appear at a U.S. port of entry to seek parole.

Some humanitarian parole situations involve a request for a person who is outside the United States. Follow the exact USCIS instructions for the applicable parole process.

A lawful permanent resident may request a Reentry Permit before extended travel abroad. The permit can help document an intention to maintain permanent residence, but it does not guarantee admission or prevent every abandonment issue.

A conditional permanent resident may also request a Reentry Permit, subject to the validity and limitations applicable to conditional residence.

A Reentry Permit can allow a permanent resident to seek admission after travel abroad without first obtaining a returning resident visa during the document's validity.

A person in valid refugee status may need a Refugee Travel Document for international travel and return to the United States.

A person granted asylum may request a Refugee Travel Document rather than relying on a passport from the country of feared persecution.

Certain lawful permanent residents who obtained residence based on refugee or asylee status may also request a Refugee Travel Document.

Many applicants with a pending Form I-485 use Form I-131 to request Advance Parole before traveling outside the United States.

Other immigration classifications or humanitarian circumstances may permit an Advance Parole request. Eligibility must come from the underlying immigration category or USCIS program.

Provide the date you expect to depart the United States, if known and applicable to your request.

Enter how long you expect to remain outside the United States.

If you previously received a Reentry Permit or Refugee Travel Document, enter its issuance date.

Select the applicable option when you want USCIS to send the document to the U.S. address provided in the application.

Where the form permits overseas delivery, identify the U.S. Embassy or Consulate and provide the city and country requested.

If applicable, provide the overseas DHS office information requested by the form.

If overseas delivery or pickup applies, provide the complete foreign address requested by the form.

Describe why you intend to travel. Be specific enough for USCIS to understand the reason for the trip.

List the countries you currently expect to visit during the proposed trip.

Since becoming a permanent resident, or during the past five years if that period is shorter, select the total amount of time you have spent outside the United States.

Answer whether, since becoming a permanent resident, you have ever filed a Federal income tax return as a nonresident or failed to file because you considered yourself to be a nonresident.

Enter the country connected to your refugee or asylum claim.

Answer whether, since receiving refugee or asylee status, you applied for or obtained a national passport, passport renewal or entry permit from that country.

Answer whether you applied for or received benefits from the country from which you claimed refugee or asylee protection, such as certain government benefits.

Answer whether you reacquired the nationality of the country from which you claimed protection.

Answer whether you acquired another nationality after receiving refugee or asylee status.

Answer whether you have been granted refugee or asylum status in any other country.

Explain the immigration basis that allows you to request Advance Parole and the circumstances that warrant issuance of the document. Submit supporting evidence relevant to that basis.

Provide the city and country of the U.S. Embassy, U.S. Consulate or qualifying DHS overseas office that USCIS should notify if the request is approved.

If the document will be delivered to an overseas office, select the applicable address for the notice and provide any additional address and phone information required.

Where required, provide In Care Of Name, street address, apartment/suite/floor, city, province, postal code, country and daytime phone number.

The 04/01/24 edition includes a question for certain applicants requesting an Employment Authorization Document upon approval of a new Operation Allies Welcome period of parole.

Read the certification and penalties information carefully. By signing, you certify under penalty of perjury that the application and submitted evidence are true and correct.

Enter the date the application was actually signed.

Provide a current daytime telephone number where requested.

If another person prepared the application, that preparer must complete the applicable preparer information and certification required by the form.

The preparer signs the applicable certification confirming that the application was prepared at the applicant's request.

Provide the preparer's full printed name as required.

If applicable, provide the preparer's firm or organization name and complete address.

Provide the preparer's daytime telephone number.

Submit the identity documentation required for your specific I-131 request, which can include passport biographic pages, government identification or other qualifying records.

Provide evidence establishing the immigration status or pending benefit that makes you eligible for the requested travel or parole document.

Where applicable, provide documentation showing that Form I-485 has been filed or is being filed in the manner required by USCIS.

Provide evidence of lawful permanent resident or conditional permanent resident status as required.

Provide evidence establishing qualifying refugee, asylee or related permanent-resident status.

Submit documentation showing both your eligibility basis and the circumstances supporting the Advance Parole request.

If USCIS requests the previous Reentry Permit or Refugee Travel Document, submit it or explain accurately why it cannot be provided.

Include passport-style photographs when required for the specific document type and filing category.

Any foreign-language document submitted to USCIS must include the required complete English translation and translator certification.

Advance Parole permits you to travel to a port of entry and request parole. It does not guarantee that DHS will parole you into the United States.

USCIS warns that Advance Parole can be revoked or terminated, including while the holder is abroad.

A Reentry Permit can be important documentation, but it does not automatically prevent a finding that permanent residence was abandoned based on the full circumstances.