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USCIS announces a new Form I-485 edition for September 18
USCIS announced that a revised edition of the application used to register permanent residence or adjust status will be published September 18, 2026. The agency says older editions will be rejected beginning that date.
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What USCIS announced
In an alert dated August 19, USCIS said it will publish a revised Form I-485 on September 18, 2026. The announced edition date is 09/18/26. USCIS also said older editions will be rejected beginning September 18.
Form I-485 is the agency application used to register permanent residence or adjust status. The announcement is therefore relevant to people and representatives preparing that form for filing with USCIS. It is not an airport or port-of-entry policy and does not involve CBP admission decisions.
What kind of federal action this is
This is a USCIS operational alert about which edition of an agency form it will accept. It is not a notice of proposed rulemaking, a final rule, a court decision, or an ICE enforcement operation. The alert identifies September 18 as the date the new edition will be published and the date older editions will begin being rejected.
The alert does not itself announce a new statutory category of permanent residence or say that the underlying qualifications for adjustment of status have changed. Form content and instructions can still matter in individual cases, but assessing those effects would require legal and case-specific review beyond this news report.
What the alert does not establish
The announcement does not say that every person may use Form I-485, determine whether any individual is eligible, calculate a reader’s filing deadline, or recommend when or how a filing should be submitted. It also does not supply nationwide application, approval, denial, or rejection statistics.
Readers should distinguish the September 18 form-acceptance change from the separate effective dates of any immigration regulation or policy. This article reports the agency’s stated operational date only and does not provide filing instructions.
Primary federal record
- USCIS: “USCIS to Publish New Edition of Form I-485; Older Editions Will Be Rejected Starting Sept. 18” ↗ — agency alert dated August 19, 2026.
- USCIS Form I-485 landing page ↗ — official location for the form and agency instructions; linked for source context, not as individualized guidance.
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