Source: https://www.kenreyeslaw.com/blog/2014/october/ina-245-k-as-an-option-for-beneficiaries-of-empl/
Timestamp: 2019-04-24 08:03:32+00:00

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The limitations in B-2 extensions, the H-1b caps, and the unavailability of EB visa have made it difficult for many immigrants to maintain their status in the US. Unfortunately, it is important to maintain your status in the US if you plan to adjust to legal permanent resident.
Certain beneficiaries of employment based petitions may still adjust to legal permanent residents even if their status in the US has expired under INA §245(k). Specifically, § 245(k) allows aliens eligible to receive an employment-based visa to adjust status notwithstanding past violations under §§ 245(c)(2), (c)(7), and (c)(8). Thus, if applicable, § 245(k) permits applicants to become permanent residents even if they have accepted unauthorized employment, failed to maintain continuously a lawful status, failed to be in lawful nonimmigrant status when applying for permanent residence, or violated the terms of a nonimmigrant visa.
(C) Otherwise violated the terms and conditions of the applicant's admission.
The language of § 245(k) appears to render unauthorized employment, status violations, and violations of the terms of a nonimmigrant visa taking place after an adjustment application is filed irrelevant for purposes of adjustment of status eligibility.
Section 245(k) specifically provides that an employment-based applicant for adjustment of status "may adjust status notwithstanding subsection (c)(2), (c)(7), and (c)(8)," if the "alien, on the date of filing an application for adjustment of status," meets the elements of § 245(k).
In summary, if an employment-based applicant for adjustment of status meets the elements of § 245(k) at the time his or her adjustment of status application is filed, continued violations of INA § 245(c)(2), (7), and/or (c)(8) will not render the applicant ineligible for adjustment. For purposes of section 245(k), an alien may adjust under section 245(a) as long as the alien, as of the date of filing, has not violated status, has not engaged in unlawful employment, and has not had any violations of the terms and conditions of nonimmigrant admission, for a period in excess of 180 days in the aggregate subsequent to the alien's last admission under which she is presently in the United States."

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