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

4.  Inspection and Admission or Inspection and Parole

Unless applying under INA section 245(i), most Form I-485 applicants must submit photocopies of documentation 

showing they were inspected by an immigration officer and either admitted or paroled into the United States.  The 

following types of applicants do NOT need to submit documentation of inspection and admission or parole:  registry 

applicants, asylees, VAWA self-petitioners, special immigrant juveniles, T nonimmigrants applying under INA section 

245(l), U nonimmigrants applying under INA section 245(m), and individuals born under diplomatic status in the 

United States.

You must establish any claim that you were admitted or paroled into the United States.

This evidence must relate to your most recent arrival into the United States.  Submit copies of the following 

documents, if available: