Green card holders and card recipients in the country need to think twice before traveling outside the country, doctors warn amid the huge onslaught on foreign students and migrants. ” Anyone who isn’t a U. S. citizen should think hard about the need to leave the United States, especially if they have made statements on social media that are critical of political jobs that the Trump administration supports or have had even minimal contact with police”, César Cuauhtémoc GarcÃa Hernández, the Gregory Williams Chair in civil rights &, civil rights at Ohio State University College of Law, told Newsweek.
” The Trump administration has given lasting residents and card holders lots of reason to worry about running into problems trying to get back into the United States from a vacation abroad”, the emigration law specialist said, though the administration asserted that those who have not broken any laws have nothing to worry about anything.
Shannon Shepherd, chair of the media committee for the American Immigration Lawyers Association ( AILA ) told Newsweek that overall there’s no guarantee that a person coming back to the US will be granted entry and that’s been the case always. ” But what we’re seeing nowadays is more damaging practice of judgment, I guess is the way to place it, where people are being denied access that we wouldn’t always have been denied before or folks being detained instead of just allowed to withdraw their request for passage”.
Having correct documents is most important
According to these experts, having the correct documentation is of utmost importance. For green card holders, the documents are a valid passport and the green card. If the green card is up for renewal, then one must vatty the receipt from the US Citizenship and Immigration Service.
Past criminal convictions, even minor infractions, could now be taken into account at the discretion of CBP officers at the border, along with social media comments or text messages, in order to deny entry even if the traveler has all the correct paperwork, Shepherd said.
If an individual is in the process of applying for a green card, known as Adjustment of Status ( AoS), then they generally can’t leave the country without Advance Parole. This is a travel document that has to be granted by USCIS before travel. CBP website mentions that those with valid H-1B or L-1 visas going through AoS are allowed to travel without Advance Parole, as are V- and K-3/4 nonimmigrant visa holders.
