Qualifying For Sij Status In The United State
Congress passed The Immigration Act of 1990, 8 USC 1101 to provide a procedure by which certain young or minor aliens could be classified a “special immigrant affording that alien the opportunity to maintain residence in the United States. The purpose was to protect abused, neglected, and abandoned unaccompanied minors through a process that allows them to become permanent legal residents. Under what procedure then can such minors acquire SIJ status? Unlike other immigration matters, a…
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