I-360 Approval is a Parole Under INA §245(h)

Adjustment of status, the process of becoming a lawful permanent resident without leaving the United States to consular process, is governed by INA § 245. Subsection 245(h) outlines the special provisions that govern SIJS-based adjustment. Adjustment of status generally requires that a person have been inspected and admitted or paroled into the United States

PAROLE

Special Immigrant Juveniles are deemed to have been paroled for purposes of adjustment of status. See INA § 245(h)(1); 8 C.F.R. § 245.1(e)(3)(i).

(h) Application with respect to special immigrants

In applying this section to a special immigrant described in section 1101(a)(27)(J) of this title-

(1) such an immigrant shall be deemed, for purposes of subsection (a), to have been paroled into the United States; and

(2) in determining the alien's admissibility as an immigrant-

(A) paragraphs (4), (5)(A), (6)(A), (6)(C), (6)(D), (7)(A), and (9)(B) of section 1182(a) of this title shall not apply; and

(B) the Attorney General may waive other paragraphs of section 1182(a) of this title (other than paragraphs (2)(A), (2)(B), (2)(C) (except for so much of such paragraph as related to a single offense of simple possession of 30 grams or less of marijuana), (3)(A), (3)(B), (3)(C), and (3)(E)) in the case of individual aliens for humanitarian purposes, family unity, or when it is otherwise in the public interest.