Adjustment Date Definition

[immihelp]

Hello,

I teach a Citizenship and ESL class for Santa Monica College. I am looking for an explanation of the term "adjustment date." It is one of the questions in the list of practice interview questions provided by USCIS website.

The question in which the term occurs asks, "When is your adjustment date?" The question before it asks, "When did you become a legal permanent resident?" which leads me to assume that the adjustment date is not the same as the date on which my students became permanent legal residents.

Can you help?

[immihelp]

When person applies for Adjustment of Status (I-485), they get approved at some point. That date is adjustment date.

After that, they have to go to USCIS office to get their passport stamped. That is the day they become legal permanent resident.