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

Evidence of Financial Support

If you are filing Form I-485 as an abused spouse or child under the CAA, you do not need to submit evidence of financial 

support. 

Additional Evidence Requirements

As a CAA abused spouse or child, you must submit evidence showing you meet certain requirements specific to this 

adjustment program.  Therefore, in addition to the evidence listed in the 

What Evidence Must You Submit with Form 

I-485

 section, you must also submit: 

1. 

Evidence that you resided with your abusive Cuban spouse or parent at some point during the qualifying relationship 

as a spouse or child; 

2. 

Evidence that you have been physically present in the United States for at least one year; 

3. 

Evidence of battery or extreme cruelty; 

4. 

Evidence that the termination of your marriage was connected to the abuse (if applicable); and

5. 

Evidence that the abusive Cuban spouse died within two years of when you filed an application for adjustment of 

status (if applicable). 

Evidence of Physical Presence and Inspection and Admission or Inspection and Parole 

The law does not require the one-year period of physical presence to occur after your parole.

Abused spouses and children of CAA-eligible applicants must have been inspected and admitted or inspected and 

paroled into the United States.  If you are present in the United States without inspection, you are not eligible for CAA 

adjustment unless you first present yourself to DHS and DHS paroles you under INA section 212(d)(5)(A), pending a final 

determination of your admissibility.