Form i-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status

travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/passports/photos/photo-examples.html

 for examples.

2.  Government-Issued Identity Document with Photograph 

All Form I-485 applicants should submit a photocopy of a government-issued identity document that has their 

photograph.  Typically, this will be your passport or similar document, even if the passport is now expired.  It can also 

be any other government-issued identity document such as a driver’s license or military identification document.

3. 

Birth Certificate

 

All Form I-485 applicants, except refugees and asylees, must submit a photocopy of their birth certificate issued by 

the appropriate civil authority from the country of birth.  Although refugees and asylees are not required to submit a 

photocopy of their birth certificate, if the birth certificate is available, refugees and asylees should submit a copy of the 

birth certificate.  USCIS will only accept a long-form birth certificate which lists at least one parent.  

If your birth certificate is unavailable or does not exist, you must prove its unavailability or nonexistence and provide 

acceptable alternative evidence of birth.  (Refugees and asylees do not need to prove unavailability or nonexistence 

of their birth certificate.)  You can look up your country of birth on the following website,