United States Application for Travel Document — Reentry Permit and Advance Parole (Form I-131)

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice. It documents the provenance of the published fields and flow, records a mock-data test run of the field set, and states the current verification claim honestly.

Current claim

• status: draft
• verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
• verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-02

The document was derived from and cross-checked against the official source below, but the full field-by-field comparison the practice requires (manual-source-review-v1 → Procedure step 2) has not yet been independently re-verified by a second reviewer. It therefore remains draft, not verified.

Why this candidate was advanced now

GOV-675, part of the federal passport/immigration wave approved under GOV-664's plan (§2, item F1.5). Form I-131 is DHS/USCIS's Application for Travel Documents, Parole Documents, and Arrival/Departure Records — a wide-scope form covering reentry permits, refugee travel documents, TPS travel authorization documents, advance parole, and several distinct humanitarian-parole / parole-in-place / re-parole pathways. The source issue explicitly scoped this deliverable to "Application for Travel Document (re-entry permit / advance parole)"; see Scope decisions below for exactly which parts of the live form that excludes.

Sources examined

• Document (id, version): us/uscis/travel-document-i131 / 1.0.0
• Spec version: GovSchema 0.3.0
• Authority: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
• Primary source URL: https://www.uscis.gov/i-131
• Official form id: Form I-131 (Edition 01/20/25)
• Form PDF: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-131.pdf — fetched directly with a plain curl request (a browser User-Agent header was sufficient); HTTP 200, no access block.
• Instructions PDF: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-131instr.pdf (not fetched this cycle; see "What is NOT yet independently verified").
• Extraction method: npm install pdfjs-dist (network access available even though this env has no pdftotext/pip), then getDocument().getFieldObjects() for every AcroForm field name/type/exportValue across all 14 pages, and page.getTextContent() per page with items re-sorted into reading order by glyph (y, x) position (the raw item-array join order interleaves columns and scrambles lettered sub-item sequences, e.g. Part 1 Item 5's A-M list). This reading-order resort was necessary to correctly recover the A-M ordering for Item 5 (cross-checked against the field name suffixes P1_Line5A...P1_Line5M in getFieldObjects(), which is the authoritative order).
• Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-07-02
• Reviewer: GovSchema Engineering (Standards Engineer — initial authoring source-review)

Not a time-versioned (edition) form

An I-131 filing is a one-time submission per trip/status-preservation need (reentry permit before an extended absence, advance parole before travel while an immigration application is pending) — applying the GSP-0005 §2 coexistence test, there is no scenario where two editions of the I-131 data model need to coexist for the same applicant. This document is therefore authored at the plain (non-edition) registry path, registry/us/uscis/travel-document-i131/1.0.0/. A future form revision (dated per edition, e.g. "01/20/25") that changes the field set ships as a new version, not an edition.

Scope decisions

Form I-131 has 13 numbered parts (Part 13 is an open-ended continuation section) covering five distinct travel/parole document types. Per the source issue's explicit framing ("re-entry permit / advance parole"), this document models only:

• Part 1 — travelDocumentType (Item 1: Reentry Permit; Item 5: Advance Parole, with its 13 lettered sub-bases A-M) and holdsRefugeeStatusOrDerivedLPR (Item 13, always asked regardless of document type).
• Part 2 — Information About You (Items 1-13), in full.
• Part 3 — Biographic Information, in full.
• Part 4 — Processing Information (Items 1-9), in full — including the Reentry-Permit-specific mailing/notification sub-flow (Items 7-9), which the form itself gates behind "If you are applying for an Advance Parole Document, SKIP to Part 7" (Item 6.b instruction).
• Part 5 — Complete Only If Applying for a Reentry Permit, in full.
• Part 7 — Information About Your Proposed Travel (Advance Parole only), in full.
• Part 10, 11, 12 — Applicant / Interpreter / Preparer contact, certification, and signature, in full.

Explicitly out of scope (not modeled), because they belong to application types other than reentry permit / advance parole:

• Part 1, Item Numbers 2-4 (Refugee Travel Document eligibility statements, TPS Travel Authorization Document) and Item Numbers 6-12 (initial parole from outside the U.S., parole in place, re-parole, and their many program-specific sub-bases: FWVP, IMMVI, CAM, FRTF, Ukrainian/Afghan re-parole processes, Military PIP, etc.).
• Part 2, Items 14-27 ("Information About Them" — completed only when filing on behalf of someone else, which the form ties to the parole/PIP/ re-parole application types in scope's exclusion list above, not to reentry permit or advance parole).
• Part 6 — Complete Only If Applying for a Refugee Travel Document.
• Part 8 — Complete Only If Applying for an Initial Parole Document, Parole in Place, or Re-parole.
• Part 9 — Employment Authorization For New Period of Parole (Re-parole).
• Part 13 — Additional Information, a genuinely open-ended continuation space (page/part/item-number cross-referenced overflow), given the same out-of-scope treatment as Form I-90's Part 8 and other similarly-shaped continuation sections.

Within the in-scope parts:

• race and correctionItemsNeeded ("select all applicable boxes") are each modeled as a single string field documented to hold a comma-separated list of category values, rather than an array type — the same treatment as us/uscis/permanent-resident-card-replacement-i90's race field, pending the native multi-select gap tracked alongside GSP-0009.
• otherNamesUsed (Part 2, Item 2) collapses the form's three structured family/given/middle name rows into one semicolon-separated free-text field, consistent with the existing otherNamesUsed field on us/uscis/change-of-address-ar11 and us/dos/passport-application-ds11 (same GSP-0009 gap).
• physicalAddressDiffersFromMailing and usedInterpreter / usedPreparer are synthetic booleans (not distinct numbered form items) inferred from routing instructions in the form text ("if different from the above address"; "If no interpreter was used, skip to Part 12"), the same synthetic-boolean technique used in us/uscis/permanent-resident-card-replacement-i90.
• Conditional requiredness is encoded structurally with GSP-0013 requiredWhen (including one all composition — advanceParoleBasisReference requires both travelDocumentType: advance_parole and advanceParoleBasis not equal to deferred_enforced_departure — and two any compositions on correctionItemsNeeded/correctionExplanation), rather than the prose-only convention used in the v0.2-era permanent-resident-card-replacement-i90. This document is authored directly under spec v0.3, so the structural mechanism is used instead of the superseded documentation-only pattern.
• mostRecentI94RecordNumber (Part 2, Item 13) is documented as conditionally required by the form ("if you are physically present in the United States, and you are seeking ... advance parole ... complete the following") but left required: false without a requiredWhen, because "physically present in the United States" is not itself a field captured in this document's scope — encoding a false structural requirement here would overclaim precision the field set doesn't have.
• Advance Parole basis reference field. Item 5's 13 lettered sub-bases (A-M) each pair with a different kind of supporting reference (a receipt number for petition-based bases, a class-of-admission code for basis H, a written explanation for basis M, and no reference at all for basis D). These are modeled as one advanceParoleBasisReference free-text field rather than 13 separate fields, with the field's description spelling out which kind of value applies for which basis.

What was confirmed against the source

• Part 1 Application Type — Item 1 (Reentry Permit) and Item 5 (Advance Parole) selection, and Item 5's full A-M lettered basis list (pending I-485; pending I-589; pending initial I-821 TPS; Deferred Enforced Departure; approved I-821D DACA; approved I-914/I-914A T nonimmigrant; approved I-918/I-918A U nonimmigrant; current parolee under INA 212(d)(5); approved I-817 Family Unity; pending I-687 §245A; approved V nonimmigrant status; CNMI long-term residence; Other), transcribed from the reading-order-sorted page 1 and page 2 text and cross-checked against the P1_Line5A-P1_Line5M AcroForm field names. Item 13 (refugee status) transcribed from page 4.
• Part 2 Information About You (Items 1-13) — full name, other names used, current mailing address (with foreign-address province/postal-code variant), current physical address, A-Number, country of birth, country of citizenship or nationality, sex, date of birth, SSN, USCIS Online Account Number, class of admission, and most recent Form I-94 record number — transcribed field-by-field from reading-order-sorted page 4-5 text, cross-checked against the Part2_Line* AcroForm field names.
• Part 3 Biographic Information (Items 1-6) — ethnicity, race (5 options), height (feet/inches dropdowns), weight, eye color (9 options), and hair color (9 options) — transcribed from page 7 text and cross-checked against the P3_Line* AcroForm field names/export values (eye/hair color enums reused verbatim from us/uscis/permanent-resident-card-replacement-i90, which already cross-checked the identical 9-option USCIS biographic vocabulary).
• Part 4 Processing Information (Items 1-9) — removal-proceedings history, prior Reentry-Permit/Refugee-Travel-Document and prior Advance-Parole-Document issuance history, replacement request routing (reason, correction items, correction explanation, replaced-document receipt number), and the Reentry-Permit-only delivery/notification sub-flow (mail to U.S. address on file vs. an overseas embassy/consulate/field office; notification to the same address or an alternate one) — transcribed from pages 7-9, cross-checked against the P4_Line* field names and the explicit "SKIP to Part 8"/"SKIP to Part 7"/"you must complete the rest of Part 4. if you are requesting a Reentry Permit" routing instructions in the source text.
• Part 5 (Reentry Permit time-abroad question, 6 duration buckets) and Part 7 (Advance Parole trip details: date of intended departure, purpose, countries to visit, number of trips, expected length) — transcribed from pages 9-10, cross-checked against P5_Line1_*/P7_Line* field names.
• Part 10, 11, 12 (applicant contact/certification/signature; interpreter contact/certification/signature; preparer contact/declaration/signature) — transcribed from pages 11-13, cross-checked against Part10_Line*/ Part11_Line*/Part12_Line* field names.
• Process identity. Confirmed Form I-131 (Edition 01/20/25) is the correct, current USCIS form for reentry permits and advance parole, and that the excluded application types (refugee travel document, TPS travel authorization, initial parole, parole in place, re-parole) are genuinely distinct sections of the same form, not separate forms.

Mock-data test run

Per the issue's phase-4 instruction to test-run the schema with valid mock data, two representative filled-out applications were authored — one per in-scope travelDocumentType — and checked field-by-field against every type/required/requiredWhen/validation constraint in schema.json (string length, regex pattern, enum membership, integer minimum/maximum, date format, boolean type, and the requiredWhen conditions including the one all-composed condition and the two any-composed conditions):

``json { "travelDocumentType": "advance_parole", "advanceParoleBasis": "pending_i485_adjustment_of_status", "advanceParoleBasisReference": "MSC1234567890", "holdsRefugeeStatusOrDerivedLPR": false, "familyName": "Alvarez", "givenName": "Marisol", "mailingAddressLine1": "812 Congress Avenue", "mailingAddressCity": "Austin", "mailingAddressState": "TX", "mailingAddressZipCode": "78701", "mailingAddressCountry": "United States", "physicalAddressDiffersFromMailing": false, "countryOfBirth": "Mexico", "countryOfCitizenshipOrNationality": "Mexico", "sex": "female", "dateOfBirth": "1992-05-11", "classOfAdmission": "F1", "ethnicity": "hispanic_or_latino", "race": "white", "heightFeet": 5, "heightInches": 5, "weightPounds": 140, "eyeColor": "brown", "hairColor": "black", "everInRemovalProceedings": false, "everIssuedReentryPermitOrRefugeeTravelDocument": false, "everIssuedAdvanceParoleDocument": true, "priorAdvanceParoleDateIssued": "2023-04-01", "priorAdvanceParoleDisposition": "still in my possession", "requestingReplacementDocument": false, "dateOfIntendedDeparture": "2026-09-01", "purposeOfTrip": "Attend grandmother's funeral", "countriesToVisit": "Mexico", "numberOfTrips": "one_trip", "expectedLengthOfTripDays": 14, "applicantDaytimePhoneNumber": "+15125550111", "applicantEmail": "marisol.alvarez@example.com", "applicantSignatureDate": "2026-08-01", "usedInterpreter": false, "usedPreparer": false } ``

This models Marisol Alvarez, requesting Advance Parole based on a pending Form I-485, with a prior advance parole document still in her possession, and a single planned trip to Mexico. It exercises the travelDocumentType: advance_parole branch, including the all-composed advanceParoleBasisReference requirement (satisfied, since the basis is not deferred_enforced_departure) and the Part 7 travel fields, while correctly leaving all Reentry-Permit-only fields (Part 4 Items 7-9, Part 5) unset.

A second scenario modeled Kenji Nakamura, requesting a replacement Reentry Permit (lost/stolen/damaged) to be delivered to a U.S. Embassy overseas, with the pickup notification sent to an alternate (non-U.S.-file) address:

``json { "travelDocumentType": "reentry_permit", "holdsRefugeeStatusOrDerivedLPR": false, "familyName": "Nakamura", "givenName": "Kenji", "mailingAddressLine1": "455 Golden Gate Avenue", "mailingAddressCity": "San Francisco", "mailingAddressState": "CA", "mailingAddressZipCode": "94102", "mailingAddressCountry": "United States", "physicalAddressDiffersFromMailing": false, "alienRegistrationNumber": "123456789", "countryOfBirth": "Japan", "countryOfCitizenshipOrNationality": "Japan", "sex": "male", "dateOfBirth": "1980-01-20", "ethnicity": "not_hispanic_or_latino", "race": "asian", "heightFeet": 5, "heightInches": 9, "weightPounds": 165, "eyeColor": "brown", "hairColor": "black", "everInRemovalProceedings": false, "everIssuedReentryPermitOrRefugeeTravelDocument": true, "priorReentryOrRefugeeDocumentDateIssued": "2020-01-01", "priorReentryOrRefugeeDocumentDisposition": "lost, stolen, or damaged", "everIssuedAdvanceParoleDocument": false, "requestingReplacementDocument": true, "replacementReason": "lost_stolen_or_damaged", "replacedDocumentReceiptNumber": "MSC9876543210", "reentryPermitDeliveryMethod": "overseas_embassy_consulate_or_field_office", "reentryPermitOverseasCity": "Tokyo", "reentryPermitOverseasCountry": "Japan", "reentryPermitNotificationDeliveryMethod": "alternate_address", "notificationAddressLine1": "1-1 Nishi-Shinjuku", "notificationAddressCity": "Tokyo", "notificationAddressCountry": "Japan", "notificationDaytimePhoneNumber": "+81332245277", "timeSpentOutsideUS": "1_to_2_years", "applicantDaytimePhoneNumber": "+14155550133", "applicantSignatureDate": "2026-08-01", "usedInterpreter": false, "usedPreparer": false } ``

This exercises the travelDocumentType: reentry_permit branch, the replacement-document sub-flow (requestingReplacementDocument → replacementReason → replacedDocumentReceiptNumber, without triggering the correctionItemsNeeded/correctionExplanation any-composed requirement, since the reason chosen is lost_stolen_or_damaged not one of the two incorrect_information_* reasons), and the nested delivery/notification chain (reentryPermitDeliveryMethod: overseas_embassy_consulate_or_field_office → reentryPermitNotificationDeliveryMethod: alternate_address → notificationAddress*/notificationDaytimePhoneNumber all becoming required).

A one-off Node script (node:fs + a hand-rolled per-field validator evaluating required/requiredWhen, including all/any condition composition — not committed to the repo) confirmed every populated field satisfies its type/validation constraint, no required or conditionally- required field was left unset, and no out-of-scope conditional field was incorrectly triggered, for both scenarios:

``` --- Scenario: Advance Parole (pending I-485) --- PASS — all field constraints satisfied

--- Scenario: Reentry Permit (replacement, sent overseas) --- PASS — all field constraints satisfied ```

Both registry validators were run against the schema document itself (not the mock data) and pass:

``` $ node tools/validate.mjs registry/us/uscis/travel-document-i131/1.0.0/schema.json ok registry/us/uscis/travel-document-i131/1.0.0/schema.json

$ cd tools && node validate-ajv.mjs ../registry/us/uscis/travel-document-i131/1.0.0/schema.json ok registry/us/uscis/travel-document-i131/1.0.0/schema.json [v0.3] ```

A separate structural check confirmed all 97 fields appear in exactly one steps[].fields entry (no field omitted, none duplicated), and that every requiredWhen leaf condition references a field that actually exists in the document.

What is NOT yet independently verified

• The Instructions document (i-131instr.pdf) was not fetched this cycle; this document is sourced from the Form I-131 PDF itself. Constraint patterns (phone E.164, SSN, A-Number digit count, height/weight ranges) are reasonable encodings, not citations of a published USCIS validation rule.
• classOfAdmission and advanceParoleBasisReference as free text. Neither the form nor this review enumerates the full set of valid admission-class or petition-receipt-number codes; free text is a reasonable encoding, not a verified enum.
• The online (myUSCIS) filing experience's exact screen flow was not directly observed; per the source page, only certain I-131 application types can be filed online (the page states "Online (only available for certain application types)") — which subset of the in-scope reentry-permit/advance- parole flow that covers was not independently confirmed this cycle.
• The excluded parts (1 Items 2-4/6-12; Parts 2 Items 14-27, 6, 8, 9, 13) are documented as out of scope but not modeled or independently verified field-by-field; see "Scope decisions" above.
• A second reviewer's independent field-by-field re-derivation (this practice's Procedure step 2) has not yet occurred.

Path to a verified claim (next step)

To advance this document to status: verified, a reviewer applies manual-source-review-v1 (Procedure step 2 field-by-field comparison, step 3 flow comparison) against the live Form I-131 PDF, confirms the sources are still authoritative, resolves any discrepancy by shipping a new schema version (immutability — VERSIONING §3, practice Procedure step 5), and records the outcome here plus sets status: verified with a current verification.lastVerifiedAt / nextReviewBy. This v1.0.0 record stays as the authoring provenance.

Re-verification

Per the practice's Cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2027-01-01 (6 months). Re-check the source on or before that date, on any source.url change, or when USCIS publishes a new Form I-131 edition (the form is dated per edition, e.g. "01/20/25").