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AOS Statute

INA 245(a) Adjustment of Status Eligibility Requirements

The applicant must have been:

• Inspected and admitted into the United States; or
• Inspected and paroled into the United States.

The applicant must properly file an adjustment of status application.

The applicant must be physically present in the United States.

The applicant must be eligible to receive an immigrant visa.

An immigrant visa must be immediately available when the applicant files the adjustment of status application.

and at the time of final adjudication.

The applicant must be admissible to the United States for lawful permanent residence or eligible for a waiver of inadmissibility or other form of relief.

The applicant merits the favorable exercise of discretion.