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

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.  However, if one of your parents was a U.S. citizen at the time of your birth, then you are 

already a U.S. citizen from birth and do not need to file this application.

Evidence of Continuous Residence

You must establish that you have not abandoned your residence in the United States.  One of the tests for whether you 

retained lawful permanent resident status is your continuous residence in the United States.

You may establish continuous residence in the United States since entry even if you have made numerous brief departures 

from the United States.  You may submit as many documents as necessary to establish continuous residence in the United 

States.  Examples of the types of evidence you may submit include:

1. 

Copy of passport pages with nonimmigrant visa, admission, or parole stamps;

2. 

Form I-94 Arrival-Departure Record;

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