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Attorneys:  Cornel Potra – Admitted: Georgia & Washington    Kristina F Potra – Admitted: Georgia

This questionnaire is for the exclusive use of Potra Law Firm.  Please answer all the questions.  Do not leave any questions unanswered.  If you do not have an answer to a question, please insert “N/A”.  It is your responsibility to provide true and accurate information, as well as the evidentiary documents requested.

This Document Is For The Attorney’s Office Use Only

 

 

QUESTIONNAIRE FOR THE I-485

PERMANENT RESIDENT/ ADJUST STATUS

 

Personal Information

 

1. Full Name

a. Family name

 b. First name

c. Middle name

 

 

2. Current address:

 

   a. Street  number

   b. City

   c. State/Province

   d. Zip code

   e. Country

 

 

 

3.  Date of Birth month/day/year
4.  Country of Birth
5.  Country of nationality
6.  Social Security Number (if applicable)
7.  Alien Number (A#) (if applicable)  
   

Information about your current immigrant status in U.S.

 

 8. Date of last arrival month/day/year

 9. I-94 Number

10. Current status (type of visa)

11. Date when status expires or expired month/day/year

 

 

12. Place of birth City/Country

13. Current occupation

14. Mother's first name

15. Father's first name

 

Information about your LAST arrival in the U.S.

 

16. Full name as it appears on the I-94

17.  Place of last entry City/State

18. Type of visa that granted you access in the U.S. (if entered illegally, please state so).

19. Were you inspected by a U.S. Immigration Officer, when you entered in the U.S.?

 

Information about your visa

                                                               

20. Consulate that issued your visa City/Country

21. Nonimmigrant Visa Number

22. Visa issuance date month/day/year

 

 
23. Gender

24. Marital Status

   
 

25. Have you ever applied for permanent resident status in the U.S.?  If yes, please give the following:

       a. Date of filing month/day/year

       b. Place of filing City/State/Country

       c. Final disposition (results)

 

 

26. Information about your spouse

 

   a. Family Name (maiden name for females)

   b. First Name

   c. Middle Name

   d. Date of Birth month/day/year

   e. Country of birth

   f.  Alien Number (A#) (if applicable)  
   g. Is he/she filing with you?

 

27. Information about your children, (if it applies)

 

a. Family Name

b. First Name

c. Middle Name

d. Date of birth

e. Country of birth f. Alien Number g. Is he/she filing with you?

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             If you have more than 10 children, use the space below.

      It is very important that you respect the order of the information requested.

 

28. List your present and past membership in or affiliation with every political organization.  If none, please state so

Processing Questions

Please answer the following questions with YES or NO.

1. Have you ever, in or outside the U. S.:

 

          a. knowingly committed any crime of moral turpitude or a drug-related offense for which you have not

              been arrested?

          b. been arrested, cited, charged, indicted, fined or imprisoned for breaking or violating any law or ordinance,

              excluding traffic violations?

          c. been the beneficiary of a pardon, amnesty, rehabilitation decree, other act of clemency or similar action?
          d. exercised diplomatic immunity to avoid prosecution for a criminal offense in the U. S.?
   

2. Have you received public assistance in the U.S. from any source, including the U.S. government or any state,      county, city or municipality (other than emergency medical treatment), or are you likely to receive public assistance in the future?

   
3. Have you ever:  

a. within the past ten years been a prostitute or procured anyone for prostitution, or intend to engage in such activities in the future?

b. engaged in any unlawful commercialized vice, including, but not limited to, illegal gambling?

            c. knowingly encouraged, induced, assisted, abetted or aided any alien to try to enter the U.S. illegally?

d. illicitly trafficked in any controlled substance, or knowingly assisted, abetted or colluded in the illicit    trafficking of any controlled substance?

   
4. Have you ever engaged in, conspired to engage in, or do you intend to engage in, or have you ever solicited membership or funds for, or have you through any means ever assisted or provided any type of material support to, any person or organization that has ever engaged or conspired to engage, in sabotage, kidnapping, political assassination, hijacking or any other form of terrorist activity?
   
5. Do you intend to engage in the U.S. in:  
           a. espionage?

b. any activity a purpose of which is opposition to, or the control or overthrow of, the government of the United States, by force, violence or other unlawful means?

c. any activity to violate or evade any law prohibiting the export from the United States of goods, technology or sensitive information?

   
6. Have you ever been a member of, or in any way affiliated with, the Communist Party or any other  totalitarian party?
   
7. Did you, during the period from March 23, 1933 to May 8, 1945, in association with either the Nazi Government of Germany or any organization or government associated or allied with the Nazi Government of Germany, ever order, incite, assist or otherwise participate in the persecution of any person because of race, religion, national origin or political opinion?
   
8. Have you ever engaged in genocide, or otherwise ordered, incited, assisted or otherwise participated in the killing of any person because of race, religion, nationality, ethnic origin or political opinion?
   
9. Have you ever been deported from the U.S., or removed from the U.S. at government expense, excluded within the past year, or are you now in exclusion or deportation proceedings?
   
10.Are you under a final order of civil penalty for violating section 274C of the Immigration and Nationality Act for use of fraudulent documents or have you, by fraud or willful misrepresentation of a material fact, ever sought to procure, or procured, a visa, other documentation, entry into the U.S. or any immigration benefit?
   
11. Have you ever left the U.S. to avoid being drafted into the U.S. Armed Forces?
   
12. Have you ever been a J nonimmigrant exchange visitor who was subject to the two-year foreign residence requirement and not yet complied with that requirement or obtained a waiver?
   
13. Are you now withholding custody of a U.S. citizen child outside the U.S. from a person granted custody of the child?
   
14. Do you plan to practice polygamy in the U.S.?

          

 

If your answer is "Yes" to any of the processing questions above, use  the space below to explain. Please mention the question's number. Answering "Yes" does not necessarily mean that you are not entitled to adjust your status or register for permanent residence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 Documents necessary for filing the I-485 Petition with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security:

 

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Six identical passport style photographs;

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Medical Examination Results (Form I-693);

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Copy of the passport, including any nonimmigrant visas;

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I-94 Arrival Record (copy);

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Evidence of the appropriate family relationship (birth certificates, marriage certificates, divorce certificates);

 
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Two regular self-addressed stamped envelopes;

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Filing fees as follows:

 
 

a. $325.00 – I-485 filing fee for individuals over 14 of age;

 

b. $ 225.00 – I-485 filing fee for individuals under 14;

 

c. $70.00 – Fingerprinting fee for individuals over 14;.

 

d. $1,000.00 – payable ONLY when filing the I-485 Supplement (according to attorney’s specifications).

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