The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) has issued a practice alert indicating that United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has now started denying Form I-131 Applications for a Travel Document requesting advance parole where an individual has departed the United States while the Form I-131 application is pending – even where the applicant has a valid H, L, K, or V visa or already has a valid advance parole document. AILA raised this issue with