---
kind: "section"
citation: "8 C.F.R. § 245a.11"
title: "8"
number: "245a.11"
heading: "Eligibility to adjust to LPR status."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/8/245a.11"
---

# §245a.11. Eligibility to adjust to LPR status.


An eligible alien, as defined in [§ 245a.10](/cfr/8/245a.10.md), may adjust status to LPR status under LIFE Legalization if:

- (a) He or she properly files, with fee, Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, with the Service during the application period beginning June 1, 2001, and ending June 4, 2003.
- (b) He or she entered the United States before January 1, 1982, and resided continuously in the United States in an unlawful status since that date through May 4, 1988;
- (c) He or she was continuously physically present in the United States during the period beginning on November 6, 1986, and ending on May 4, 1988;
- (d) He or she is not inadmissible to the United States for permanent residence under any provisions of section 212(a) of the Act, except as provided in [§ 245a.18](/cfr/8/245a.18.md), and that he or she:
  - (1) Has not been convicted of any felony or of three or more misdemeanors committed in the United States;
  - (2) Has not assisted in the persecution of any person or persons on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion; and
  - (3) Is registered or registering under the Military Selective Service Act, if the alien is required to be so registered; and
- (e) **He or she can demonstrate basic citizenship skills.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[66 FR 29673, June 1, 2001, as amended at 67 FR 38350, June 4, 2002]

### Source

Source: 66 FR 29673, June 1, 2001, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 8 U.S.C. 1101, 1103, 1255a and 1255a note.

### Source

Source: 52 FR 16208, May 1, 1987, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[66 FR 29673, June 1, 2001, as amended at 67 FR 38350, June 4, 2002]