Cyrus D. Mehta, Jan. 22, 2024 "On February 14, 2023, the USCIS recognized that the age of the child gets protected under the Child Status Protection Act when the Date for Filing (DFF) in the Department of State (“DOS” or “State Department”...
Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, Aug. 28, 2023 "As detailed in a prior blog , USCIS issued updated guidance on February 14, 2023 on when an immigrant visa number “becomes available” for the purpose of calculating a noncitizen’s age under...
USCIS, Aug. 24, 2023 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is issuing policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual to clarify that USCIS considers the recent February 14, 2023, policy change to be an extraordinary circumstance that may excuse...
Brent Renison writes: "I am happy to report that we have obtained partial victory in our 3 year long class action lawsuit over CSPA (Nakka v. USCIS) which I just argued at the Ninth Circuit last week. USCIS changed its policy yesterday to apply Dates for...
USCIS, Feb. 14, 2023 "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has issued guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual to update when an immigrant visa number “becomes available” for the purpose of calculating a noncitizen’s age in certain situations...
USCIS, Nov. 13, 2020 "Age and “Sought to Acquire” Requirement under Child Status Protection Act Background Congress enacted the CSPA in 2002 to protect certain child beneficiaries from losing eligibility for immigrant visas and adjustment of status due...
Cyrus D. Mehta, Sept. 22, 2018 - "The Child Status Protection Act is one of the most complex pieces of immigration legislation. Passed in 2002, the CSPA protects the age of children who would otherwise not qualify as children if they turned 21. The lack of...
NOTE: Although this PM is dated April 15, 2015, it was posted to the USCIS website on July 29, 2015 . Guidance on Evaluating Claims of “Extraordinary Circumstances” for Late Filings When the Applicant Must Have Sought to Acquire Lawful Permanent Residence Within...
"This policy memorandum (PM) rescinds a case hold issued on November 21, 2013, for certain Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) cases impacted by the Scialabba v. Cuellar de Osorio litigation as described in PM-602-0094, “Guidance to USCIS Offices on Handling...
USCIS, Nov. 21, 2013 : Guidance to USCIS Offices on Handling Certain Family-Based Automatic Conversion and Priority Date Retention Requests Pending a Supreme Court Ruling on Mayorkas v. Cuellar de Osorio