Opinion ID: 673239
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Heading: Criteria for Adjustment of Status

Text: 5 Section 245 of the INA allows the INS to adjust the status of a nonimmigrant to that of a person admitted for permanent residence. See 8 U.S.C. Sec. 1255(a) (1988). The alien bears the burden of demonstrating that (1) he has applied to an INS District Director for the adjustment, (2) he is eligible to receive an immigrant visa and is admissible to the United States, and (3) an immigrant visa is immediately available to him at the time the application is filed. See id.; Choe v. INS, 11 F.3d 925, 928 (9th Cir.1993). The BIA denied Wu's application for adjustment of status because Wu failed to establish that he was eligible to receive an immigrant visa.