Is Form G-325 Still Required for Immigration?

For most people filing an immigration application today, Form G-325 is no longer required. USCIS retired the general-purpose biographic information sheet and moved its questions directly into the main application forms. Two narrow variants, Form G-325A and Form G-325R, are still active, but they apply only to specific deferred action and registration situations, not to the family petitions, adjustment of status applications, or naturalization filings where the old G-325 used to appear.

Why the Standalone Form Was Retired

Form G-325, titled Biographic Information, was a separate sheet that collected personal history for background and security checks run through agencies like the FBI. It asked for your full legal name, date and place of birth, any other names you had used, and a five-year history of addresses and employment inside and outside the United States.

Applicants were entering the same information on the G-325 and again on the main application, which produced duplicate paperwork and created openings for inconsistencies between the two. USCIS revised its primary forms to absorb those biographic questions, so the standalone sheet is no longer needed for the common filings.

The Two Variants Still in Use

If you search the USCIS site for G-325, two forms still come up. Neither one is a general biographic form, and neither applies to adjustment of status, family petitions, or naturalization.

Form G-325A is used when requesting deferred action for certain military service members and their families, special immigrant juveniles awaiting visa availability, and some other non-military deferred action categories. It does not apply to DACA or to cases under the Violence Against Women Act. The current edition date is January 2025.¹
Form G-325R is used for registration and fingerprinting under section 262 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.²

If your filing is not one of those narrow categories, you don’t file a G-325 form at all. Your biographic information goes into the main application.

Where Biographic Information Lives Now

For the two most common filings that used to require a G-325, the biographic questions are built into the application itself.

Form I-485 (Adjustment of Status)

Form I-485, the application to become a lawful permanent resident, now contains all the personal history questions that used to live on the G-325. That includes your current legal name, other names used since birth, date of birth, and whether you have ever used a different date of birth. Part 1 asks for your current U.S. address and, if you have lived there fewer than five years, every prior address going back five years.³

Part 4 covers your employment and educational history for the last five years. You list each employer or school with its full address, your occupation or course of study, and exact start and end dates. Periods of unemployment or retirement have to be included along with your source of financial support during those gaps. The form also asks for your most recent employer or school outside the United States if that is not already captured.³

Form I-130 and I-130A (Family-Based Petitions)

When a U.S. citizen or permanent resident files Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative, for a spouse, the spouse must complete and sign Form I-130A, Supplemental Information for Spouse Beneficiary. This supplemental form collects the biographic details for the beneficiary and is submitted with the I-130.⁴ If the spouse is overseas, the form still has to be completed, but the spouse does not have to sign it in that situation.⁵

What to Gather Before You Start

The information USCIS wants is the same whether it once lived on a G-325 or now sits inside your I-485 or I-130A. Pulling it together before you open the application saves rework, and discrepancies between form answers and supporting documents are a common trigger for a Request for Evidence. Have the following ready:

Every address for the past five years, with city, state or province, country, and exact move-in and move-out dates.
Every employer, school, or period of self-employment for the past five years, with full name and address, your job title or course of study, and start and end dates.
Any gap in employment or period of retirement inside that window, along with who or what supported you financially.
Every name you have used since birth, including maiden names, prior married names, and aliases.
Full names, dates of birth, and current addresses for your parents and spouse.

Work from actual documents rather than memory. Old leases, tax returns, pay stubs, and school transcripts help you pin down exact dates. The five-year window runs backward from the date you sign the form, so count carefully.

Getting the Biographic Information Right

Errors in biographic information carry real weight because USCIS uses this data for background and security checks. Honest mistakes can be corrected while a case is pending. If you have received a Request for Evidence or an interview notice, you can submit a correction letter with supporting documents. If you have a USCIS online account linked to the case, you can upload a correction letter directly. Otherwise, the USCIS Contact Center can direct you.⁶

Deliberate misstatements are treated very differently. Under immigration law, anyone who obtains or attempts to obtain an immigration benefit through fraud or willful misrepresentation of a material fact is inadmissible to the United States.⁷ A finding of inadmissibility on this ground can permanently bar you from getting a green card or entering the country. USCIS does not have to prove you intended to deceive anyone; it is enough that you made a false statement, knew it was false, and the information was material. Even an unsuccessful attempt triggers the bar: if you applied using false information and were denied, you can still be found inadmissible for having sought to procure the benefit through misrepresentation.⁸

If you spot an honest error after filing, correct it right away through one of the paths above. An error left in place after you know about it becomes harder to characterize as an accident.

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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Biographic Information (for Deferred Action)
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Form G-325R Biographic Information (Registration)
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Form I-485 – Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Form I-130A – Supplemental Information for Spouse Beneficiary
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Instructions for Form I-130
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Immigration Documents and How to Correct, Update, or Replace Them
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Office of the Law Revision Counsel. 8 USC 1182 – Inadmissible Aliens
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Overview of Fraud and Willful Misrepresentation