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USCIS Updates Guidance on Asylee and Refugee Adjustment One-Year Physical Presence Requirement

2/2/23 AILA Doc. No. 23020201. Asylum
USCIS updated guidance to clarify that both asylees and refugees must have been physically present in the United States for one year when USCIS adjudicates their I-485, rather than at the time they file it. This applies to all I-485s and N-400s pending on 2/2/23 and those filed on or after 2/2/23.
Cite as AILA Doc. No. 23020201.

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