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4. To your step-parent:

A. A copy of your birth certificate that shows your parents’ names;

B. A copy of the marriage certificate between your natural parent and step-parent that established the relationship

before you reached 18 years of age; and

C. Evidence of legal termination of any prior marriages for your natural parent and step-parent, if applicable.

5. To your adoptive parent:

A. A copy of the final adoption decree listing the individual as your adoptive parent; and

B. Evidence that your adoptive parent adopted you before you reached 16 years of age (or reached 18 years of age if

your adoptive parent also adopted your natural sibling) and that your adoptive parent had legal custody of you and

resided with you for at least two years.

Citizenship or LPR Status of a Qualifying Relative

If you are seeking your immigrant visa based on an approved family-sponsored immigrant visa petition and claim extreme

hardship to a U.S. citizen or LPR spouse or parent who is the immigrant visa petitioner, you do not need to present

evidence of the immigrant visa petitioner’s U.S. citizenship or LPR status. The immigrant visa petitioner will have

already presented this evidence when he or she filed the immigrant visa petition (Form I-130 or Form I-360).

You must submit evidence that shows the qualifying relative is a U.S. citizen or LPR if:

1. You are seeking your immigrant visa based on an approved employment-based immigrant visa petition;

2. You are a DV Program selectee or derivative; or

3. You are seeking your immigrant visa based on an approved family-sponsored immigrant visa petition and you claim

extreme hardship to a qualifying relative who is not the immigrant visa petitioner.

Evidence of U.S. citizenship includes, but is not limited to, any of the following:

1. If your relative was born in the United States, a copy of his or her birth certificate, issued by a civil registrar, vital

statistics office, or other civil authority of a U.S. state, county, municipal authority, or territory;

2. A copy of your relative’s naturalization certificate or certificate of citizenship issued by USCIS or the former

Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS);

3. A copy of your relative’s unexpired U.S. passport; or

4. A copy of your relative’s DOS-issued Form FS-240, Report of Birth Abroad of a Citizen of the United States.

Evidence of LPR status is established by submitting a copy of your qualifying relative’s permanent resident card. You

must submit a copy of the front and back of your qualifying relative’s permanent resident card. If your qualifying relative

has not yet received his or her permanent resident card, submit copies of the biographic pages of your qualifying relative’s

passport, and copies of the pages in your qualifying relative’s passport, or any other USCIS or former INS issued evidence

that shows your qualifying relative’s LPR status.

Admission or Parole at a Port-of-Entry

If you claim in Part 1., Item Numbers 17. - 19., of the application that, on your last arrival in the United States, you were

inspected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at a port-of-entry, and then admitted or paroled, please submit your

Form I-94, a copy of your passport with an admission or parole stamp or other DHS-issued evidence of your admission or

parole.

If you cannot produce this evidence, and DHS has no record of the admission or parole, USCIS will presume that you

came into the United States without inspection and admission or parole.

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