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Instructions for I-485, Application to Register

Department of Homeland Security

Permanent Residence or Adjust Status

U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

B. If you were admitted as the K-2 child of such a

What Is the Purpose of Form I-485?

fiancé(e), you may apply to adjust status based on

This form is used by a person who is in the United States to

your parent's Form I-485.

apply to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

to adjust to permanent resident status or register for permanent

4. Based on asylum status

residence.

You may apply to adjust status after you have been

This form may also be used by certain Cuban nationals to

granted asylum in the United States if you have been

request a change in the date that their permanent residence

physically present in the United States for 1 year after the

began.

grant of asylum, provided you still qualify as an asylee or

as the spouse or child of a refugee.

Who May File Form I-485?

5. Based on refugee status

1. Based on an immigrant petition

You may apply to adjust status after you have been

admitted as a refugee and have been physically present in

You may apply to adjust your status if:

the United States for 1 year following your admission,

A. An immigrant visa number is immediately available

provided that your status has not been terminated.

to you based on an approved immigrant petition; or

6. Based on Cuban citizenship or nationality

B. You are filing this application with a completed

relative petition, special immigrant juvenile petition,

You may apply to adjust status if:

or special immigrant military petition which, if

A. You are a native or citizen of Cuba, were admitted or

approved, would make an immigrant visa number

paroled into the United States after January 1, 1959,

immediately available to you.

and thereafter have been physically present in the

United States for at least 1 year; or

2. Based on being the spouse or child (derivative) - at the

time another adjustment applicant (principal) files to

B. You are the spouse or unmarried child of a Cuban

adjust status or at the time a person is granted

described above and regardless of your nationality,

permanent resident status in an immigrant category

you were admitted or paroled after January 1, 1959,

that allows derivative status for spouses and children

and thereafter have been physically present in the

United States for at least 1 year.

A. If the spouse or child is in the United States, the

individual derivatives may file their Form I-485 with

7. Applying to change the date on which your permanent

Form I-485 for the principal applicant, or file Form

residence began

I-485 at anytime after the principal's Form I-485

application is approved, if a visa number is available.

If you were granted permanent residence in the United

States prior to November 6, 1966, and are a native or

B. If the spouse or child is residing abroad, the

citizen of Cuba, or you are the spouse or unmarried child

person adjusting status in the United States should

of such an individual, you may ask to change the date

file Form I-824, Application for Action on an

your lawful permanent residence began to your date of

Approved Application or Petition, together with the

arrival in the United States or May 2, 1964, whichever is

principal's Form I-485, to allow the derivatives to

later.

immigrate to the United States without delay if the

principal's Form I-485 is approved.

8. Based on continuous residence since before January 1,

1972

NOTE: The fee submitted with Form I-824 will not be

refunded if the principal's adjustment is not granted.

You may apply for permanent residence if you have

continuously resided in the United States since before

3. Based on admission as the fiancé(e) of a U.S. citizen

January 1, 1972. This is known as "Registry."

and subsequent marriage to that citizen

9. Priority date not current but valid

A. You may apply to adjust status if you were admitted

You may apply for adjustment of status due to a Priority

to the United States as the K-1 fiancé(e) of a U.S.

Date and Preference that are not current but valid under

citizen, and you married that citizen within 90 days of

the Child Status Protection Act or if you have a Western

your entry.

Hemisphere Priority Date.

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Instructions For Form I-485 Application To Register Permanent Residence Or Adjust Status

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