This practice alert offers strategies for practitioners representing special immigrant juveniles who received removal orders because they lacked an available visa, and whose “final action date”—the date that determines when they have a visa available...
On March 22, 2023, the U.S. Department of State (“State Department”) released the April 2023 Visa Bulletin, in which it announced significant changes to the way certain employment-based visas are allocated. Because children granted Special Immigrant...
This FAQ provides an overview of the SIJS deferred action policy; we plan to update it periodically as we learn more about how the policy is being applied.
This fact sheet provides a brief overview of how practitioners can navigate immigration court proceedings for unaccompanied child clients pursuing initial asylum jurisdiction with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). It does not address...
This webinar covers the latest in SIJS issues, including what recent AAO decisions tell us about current trends in USCIS adjudications, key highlights of the SIJS final rule, the impact of the latest employment-based fourth preference (EB-4) visa...
During this free webinar, presenters review key provisions the long-awaited final rule on Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and related adjustment of status adjudications that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services issued on March 8, 2022.
EndSIJSBacklog Coalition Presents: USCIS's New SIJS Policy on Deferred Action and Work Authorization
This webinar, hosted by the EndSIJSBacklog Coalition is intended for legal practitioners who represent SIJS youth and discusses the key components of the new policy and flag as-yet-unanswered questions.
This practice alert describes how some members of another certified class – of certain asylum seekers with prior “unaccompanied alien child” determinations, certified in J.O.P. v. DHS, 338 F.R.D. 33 (D. Md. Dec. 21, 2020) – may also be Mendez Rojas...
On December 10, 2021, the Biden administration's Family Reunification Task Force requested public input on how the government can prevent family separation from occurring again in the future. The request came more than three years after the Trump...