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

Denied Refugee Status

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Form I-485 Instructions   03/29/21    

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Under the Lautenberg program, applicants must first have been denied refugee status before their parole into the United 

States.  Provide evidence of denied refugee status, if available.

Diplomats or High Ranking Officials Unable to Return Home (Section 13 of the Act of September 11, 1957)

You may apply for adjustment of status if you are a foreign national who entered the United States under diplomatic or 

semi-diplomatic status and then failed to maintain lawful status, and you can demonstrate compelling reasons why you 

cannot return to the country represented by the government which accredited you.  Such persons are sometimes referred to 

as Section 13 applicants.