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

If You Leave the United States While Your Application Is Pending

If you are applying for adjustment of status under INA section 245

, and you travel anywhere outside the United States 

(including brief visits to Canada or Mexico) while your application is pending, USCIS will deny your Form I-485 unless:

1. 

Before you leave the United States, you obtain a grant of advance parole by filing Form I-131, you depart and return 

to a U.S. port of entry while the Advance Parole Document is valid, and you are paroled into the United States upon 

your return; or

2. 

You are an H, L, V, or K3/K4 nonimmigrant who is maintaining lawful nonimmigrant status and you return with a 

valid H, L, V, or K3/K4 nonimmigrant visa.