Entering the US with advance parole when having job and residence abroad or using ESTA

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If I were in your shoes I'd apply for ESTA and use the visa waiver program. The pending AOS application would be no basis to deny entry. On the other hand, if your try to use the advance parole when you no longer intend to reside in the US you run the risk that the immigration officer might find that you are trying to gain entry through deception, and that can indeed result in a (lifetime) ban.

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Update: Everything went fine using an ESTA (point 2 in my question). The officer at the border noticed I have an expired J1 visa in my EU passport and just commented that I could renounce my green card and so on. I will see what happens with my Green Card and update this post.

Update 24 May 2019: A couple of days ago my green card arrived. An American friend was kind enough to let us use their address, so it arrived there with 7/8 months of delay.

I do not really care about having a green card because I live elsewhere, but it is also not straight forward to stop the green card application and I did not have any reason to stop it

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