New Risks and Complications for Some Traveling on Advance Parole

“In August, the Board of Immigration Appeals — the nation’s highest immigration court under the Department of Justice — ruled that immigrants who have accrued more than 180 days of “unlawful presence” who then leave the country on advance parole would trigger a three- or 10-year bar on admissibility back into the U.S. ...

'The consequence is that it effectively is going to leave stranded many thousands of individuals who would otherwise have been able to get their green card in the United States through a spousal petition or another type of relative petition, but now can’t and are left with the only option of leaving the United States and waiting 10 years before they can come back,' said Robin Nice, a local immigration attorney."

Source: WGBH, Sarah Betancourt, Immigrants here under DACA and TPS face tougher travel restrictions under new federal rule (September 6, 2026)

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