We recently hired a Malaysian citizen who has DACA "status". Our immediate plan is to get AP for that person so he can do business travel to Europe. We're also planning on submitting an EB-2 PERM application for him and hope that doing the entry via the AP may allow for a later AOS. However, we've run into a glitch. His Malaysian passport has expired and he went to a Malaysia Consulate to get a new one. However, he doesn't have a Malaysian National Registration Identity Card (NRIC) and, effective January of this year, they will no longer renew passports without it. They said he has to go to Malaysia to get it and they'll issue Emergency Travel Documents for him to get there. But, of course, after a departure without AP, he's barred from reentry to the US for 10 years. So that won't work.
Our attorney doesn't have any suggestions to deal with this. I'm hoping somebody here does.

