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

Former Soviet Union and Indochinese Parolee (Lautenberg Parolees)

If you are or were a national of the former Soviet Union, Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos who was previously denied refugee 

status but then was inspected and paroled into the United States for humanitarian reasons before September 30, 2012, 

you may apply for adjustment of status if you have been physically present in the United States for one year after being 

paroled. 

Derivative applicants are not allowed in this category.

Evidence of Financial Support

If you are filing Form I-485 as a Lautenberg parolee, you do not need to submit evidence of financial support. 

Report of Medical Examination and Vaccination Record (Form I-693)

You only need to submit the full Form I-693 if your medical examination was not completed overseas or you had a Class 

A condition at the time of the overseas exam.  If your medical examination was completed overseas, you did not have a 

Class A condition at the time of the exam, and you are applying for adjustment within two years of parole into the United 

States, then you only need to submit the vaccination portion of Form I-693.  (You may submit Form I-693 with your Form 

I-485 or at a later time.  See the