SIJS

Victory – SIJS Settlement Final. USCIS Resumes Processing SIJS Applications

After more than a year of holding Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) cases in abeyance and denying many by adding extraneous requirements, USCIS will resume processing them as part of a settlement agreement in J.L. v. Cuccinelli, 18-CV-4914 (N.D. Cal.) A long-time client of Lal Legal filed a class action lawsuit earlier this year alleging that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) imposed a new requirement on SIJ-classification eligibility and...

How You Can Help the Unaccompanied Child Migrants

For over a year now, I have worked with community groups to pressure the President to announce a moratorium on deportations, specifically, an affirmative program ensuring relief from deportation for thousands of immigrant families, along with more significant enforcement reforms to curtail the use of deportation and detention.  While the President now seems poised to deliver some sort of executive amnesty, his handling of the child migrants at the border does...