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Evidence of Financial Support

If you are filing Form I-485 as an immigrant investor, you do not need to submit evidence of financial support.

Additional Instructions for Special Immigrants

Religious worker (Form I-360)

Special immigrant religious workers are members of a religious denomination who will be working as a minister or in

another professional capacity in a religious vocation or occupation for the denomination’s bona fide nonprofit religious

organization in the United States.

If you are filing your Form I-485 under the special immigrant religious worker category, you may not file your Form I-485

until USCIS first approves your Form I-360, and a visa is immediately available.

Except for ministers, all other religious workers and their derivatives must have their Form I-485 approved on or before

the end date of this program (sunset date). Statutory amendments may extend this date. For information on the sunset

date, please visit the USCIS website at

immigration-fourth-preference-eb-4/special-immigrant-religious-workers.

Special immigrant juvenile (Form I-360)

Special immigrant juveniles are unmarried, under 21 years of age at the time of filing Form I-360, and have a qualifying

order from a state juvenile court (see 8 CFR 204.11(a) for the definition of a juvenile court) that makes the findings

required under INA section 101(a)(27)(J).

If an employment-based fourth preference (EB-4) immigrant visa is immediately available, applicants filing as special

immigrant juveniles do not have to wait until Form I-360 is approved to file Form I-485. If a visa is immediately

available, you may file your Form I-485 together with your Form I-360, while your Form I-360 is pending, or after your

Form I-360 is approved. Otherwise, you may file your Form I-485 only after your Form I-360 is approved and a visa is

immediately available. See the When Should I File Form I-485 section above for more information.

NOTE: USCIS considers anyone granted special immigrant juvenile classification to have been paroled into the United

States for the purpose of special immigrant juvenile based adjustment, regardless of how you actually arrived in the

United States. When filling out Part 1., Item Numbers 22.a. - 25.c. of the Form I-485, please list how you actually

arrived in the United States.

Derivative applicants are not allowed in this category.

Evidence of Financial Support

If you are filing Form I-485 as a special immigrant juvenile, you do not need to submit evidence of financial support.

Certain Afghan or Iraqi national (Form I-360)

Special immigrant Afghan or Iraqi nationals are: nationals of Afghanistan or Iraq who worked with the U.S. armed forces

or U.S. Coast Guard as translators; Iraqi nationals who were employed by or on behalf of the U.S. Government; or Afghan

nationals who were employed by or on behalf of the U.S. Government in Afghanistan, in the International Security

Assistance Force (ISAF), or in a successor mission to ISAF.

If you are filing your Form I-485 under the special immigrant Afghan or Iraqi national category, you may not file your

Form I-485 until USCIS first approves your Form I-360 and a visa is available immediately.

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