Travel During Covid

[march1612]

qesehmk,

Sure I will share my experience

Sorry for repeating the question I have flight tomorrow

Can you confirm if Advance Parole document is eligible for traveling back to the US with new EO?

My EAD & Advance parole card is issued in 2019 and valid until 2021.

Used my EAD/AP card to enter the US. Sharing my Travel experience.

Vande Bharat HYD-DEL-JFK 6/24 & 6/25 flight travel experience:

1. Reached Airport 4 hours before
2. At the entrance of the HYD airport they ask for boarding pass. No need to panic just hand them the print out of the ticket and they will ask you to wait and they will print the boarding pass for you
3. At the ticket counter they printed the boarding passes until JFK and tagged the luggage until JFK.
4. Security check they scan the boarding pass
5. at the DOMESTIC terminal, they gave ppe kits for all middle seats & cover head mask for everyone
6. No Food or water offered in the flight
7. Hyd airport has all food stores opened
8. I got my home food until New York.
9. Domestic Flight landed in Del early and on time
10. We have to walk to international thermal and it can take close to 20 min
11. Gate 3 and 4 at Delhi airport are for AirIndia and there is a line to sanitize all your languages and here they check all the health forms. It is better to get them filled before your trip starts to save time
12. Once sanitization is complete they check the body temperature and They stamp “checked” on the health form. Make sure this stamp is on your health form otherwise the immigration officer will not complete your immigration process. I have seen few people had to go back and get it stamped and come back.
13. Indian immigration was pretty straight forward and competed the security and walked to the terminal
14. At the gate they do the security check again and hand you ppe kits and face mask.
15. In the international flight they gave packaged food. I only eat few things as I bought my own food.
16. Flight got delayed by 1 hour but reached on time to JFK.
17. Immigration was straightforward. Simple questions asked how long you stayed in India, purpose of the visit, any other countries travelled.
18. Make sure you have at-least 3-4 hours of gap for connecting flight from the US POE.

Everything was smooth and straightforward. AI staff has been very helpful.

Thank you Admins and everyone for all your help

[IamGSN]

I had posted the sample cover letter and details on the EAD / AP forum. I also sent a PM. Sorry this forum does not allow word file attachments. So if you want word files, it has to be done outside.
https://www.qesehmk.org/forums/showt...ll=1#post64827

Thanks @idliman and @GC14Jan2010 for sharing the info.

[imdeng]

Thanks march - very helpful I am sure to folks considering travel in these turbulent times.