Form I-485 – Part 9b: General Eligibility (Criminal Acts)

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Part 9b: General Eligibility (Criminal Acts)

Criminal Acts and Violations

For Item Numbers 22. - 41., you must answer "Yes" to any question that applies to you, even if your records were sealed or otherwise cleared, or even if anyone, including a judge, law enforcement officer, or attorney, told you that you no longer have a record. You must also answer "Yes" to the following questions whether the action or offense occurred here in the United States or anywhere else in the world. If you answer "Yes" to Item Numbers 22. - 41., use the space provided in Part 14. Additional Information to provide an explanation for each offense, if applicable, that includes a description of the criminal offense; where the criminal offense occurred; when the criminal offense occurred; whether you were arrested, cited, charged, or detained for the criminal offense you committed; and the outcome or disposition of that criminal offense (for example, convicted, placement in a diversion program, no charges filed, charges dismissed, jail, prison, detention, probation, or community service). Your explanation must include the duration of any sentence to confinement (even if suspended).

22. Have you EVER been arrested, cited, charged, or permitted to participate in a diversion program (including pre-trial diversion, deferred prosecution, deferred adjudication, or any withheld adjudication), or detained for any reason by any law enforcement official in any country including but not limited to any U.S. immigration official or any official of the U.S. armed forces or U.S. Coast Guard or by a similar official of a country other than the United States?

Yes

23. Have you EVER committed a crime of any kind (even if you were not arrested, cited, charged with, or tried for that crime, or convicted)?

Yes

24. Have you EVER pled guilty to or been convicted of a crime or offense (even if the violation was subsequently expunged or sealed by a court, or if you were granted a pardon, amnesty, a rehabilitation decree, or other act of clemency)?

Yes

NOTE: If you were the beneficiary of a pardon, amnesty, a rehabilitation decree, or other act of clemency, provide documentation of that post-conviction action.

25. Have you EVER been ordered punished by a judge or had conditions imposed on you that restrained your liberty (such as a prison sentence, suspended sentence, house arrest, parole, alternative sentencing, drug or alcohol treatment, rehabilitative programs or classes, probation, or community service)?

Yes

26. Have you EVER violated (or attempted or conspired to violate) any controlled substance law or regulation of a state, the United States, or a foreign country?

Yes

27. Have you EVER trafficked in or benefited from, or knowingly aided, abetted, assisted, conspired or colluded in the illegal trafficking of any controlled substances, such as chemicals, illegal drugs, or narcotics?

Yes

28. Are you the spouse, son, or daughter of an alien who illicitly trafficked or aided (or otherwise abetted, assisted, conspired, or colluded) in the illicit trafficking of a controlled substance, such as chemicals, illegal drugs, or narcotics and you obtained, within the last 5 years, any financial or other benefit from this activity of your spouse or parent?

Yes

29. If your answer to Item Number 28. is "Yes," did you know or should you have reasonably known that the financial or other benefit you obtained resulted from this activity of your spouse or parent?

Yes

30. Have you EVER engaged in prostitution or are you coming to the United States to engage in prostitution?

Yes

31. Have you EVER directly or indirectly procured or attempted to procure, or imported prostitutes or persons for the purpose of prostitution?

Yes

32. Have you EVER received any proceeds or money from prostitution?

Yes

33. Do you intend to engage in illegal gambling or any other form of commercialized vice, such as prostitution, bootlegging, or the sale of child pornography, while in the United States?

Yes

34. Have you EVER exercised immunity (diplomatic or otherwise) to avoid being prosecuted for a criminal offense in the United States?

Yes

35.a. Have you EVER served as a foreign government official?

Yes

35.b. If your answer to Item Number 35.a. is "Yes," have you EVER been responsible for, enforced, or directly carried out violations of religious freedoms?

Yes

36. Have you EVER induced by force, fraud, or coercion (or otherwise been involved in) the trafficking of another person for commercial sex acts (sex trafficking)?

Yes

NOTE: Sex trafficking involves inducing or causing an adult to engage in a commercial sex act (any sex act performed for anything of value) through fraud, force, or coercion, or inducing or causing any person under 18 years of age to engage in a commercial sex act (even without force, fraud, or coercion). Sex trafficking may include recruiting, enticing, harboring, transporting, providing, obtaining, advertising, maintaining, patronizing, or soliciting by any means a person to engage in the commercial sex act knowing (or, in the case of advertising, with reckless disregard of the fact) that the person is under 18 years of age or that force, fraud, or coercion was used to induce or cause the person to engage in the commercial sex act. Sex trafficking may also include knowingly benefiting financially or by receiving anything of value, from participation in a venture involving sex trafficking.

37. Have you EVER trafficked a person into involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery? Trafficking includes recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion.

Yes

38. Have you EVER knowingly aided, abetted, assisted, conspired, or colluded with others in trafficking in persons for commercial sex acts or involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery?

Yes

39. Are you the spouse, son, or daughter of an alien who engaged in the trafficking in persons and have received or obtained, within the last 5 years, any financial or other benefits from this activity of your spouse or your parent?

Yes

40. If your answer is "Yes" to Item Number 39., did you know or reasonably should have known that this benefit resulted from this activity of your spouse or parent?

Yes

41. Have you EVER engaged in money laundering or have you EVER knowingly aided, assisted, abetted, conspired, or colluded with others in money laundering or do you seek to enter the United States to engage in such activity?

Yes

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Part 9b: General Eligibility (Criminal Acts)