Meghaps

I am currently on O-1 visa and my EB-1 petition is pending. After EB-1 is
approved and I file my I-485, do I need advance parole to travel outside of USA

while 1-485 is pending?

Thanks in advance
Thyagarajan Subramanian

Ingo Pakleppa

You may want to verify this, but as far as I know, you can use the O-1
visa the same way as the H-1B visa to travel in place of Advance Parole.

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 02:01:58 +0000, Meghaps wrote:

    > I am currently on O-1 visa and my EB-1 petition is pending. After EB-1 is
    > approved and I file my I-485, do I need advance parole to travel outside of USA
    >
    > while 1-485 is pending?
    >
    > Thanks in advance
    > Thyagarajan Subramanian

Sylvia Ottemoeller

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    > I am currently on O-1 visa and my EB-1 petition is pending. After EB-1 is
    > approved and I file my I-485, do I need advance parole to travel outside
of USA
    > while 1-485 is pending?

Yes.

Since 1999, there have been two nonimmigrant statuses, H-1 and L-1, which
give the status holder the privilege of traveling outside the U.S. after
filing Form I-485, without abandoning the I-485, and without having advance
parole.

O-1 is not such a status.

See http://www.shusterman.com/hl-99regs.html.