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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...

#WhereAreTheChildren? The Kids Are Alright

We’ve seen a week of mass hysteria, propagated by many well-intentioned people, about how the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) lost around 1,500 migrant kids due to new policy whereby children are separated from their families at the border. Lets get one thing out of the way: This is not true. The so-called “missing children” — unaccompanied minors released from ORR custody — have nothing to do with the...

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...