por This may be good news for minors, as a group of Democratic representatives joined forces to propose legislation that would help minors obtain a much more direct path to applying for their Green Card, their permanent residence, Representatives Jimmy Gómez and Adriano Espaillat are in charge of this proposal.
Its objective is to reduce obstacles, fees and other processes that could be obstacles for minors who were born in the United States, and have suffered abuse or were abandoned.
Is it possible to acquire a green card as a minor?
Currently it has not been made into a law, in other words it is a proposal and now we are seeing how Congress is going to act on this bill,
We are talking about minors who entered the United States and obviously entered unaccompanied or who can argue that they were abandoned, mistreated, or there was a type of neglect by one or two of their parents.
This process is a path to the Green Card, in other words, imagine a minor, an immigrant living in the United States.
residency is something excellent, this law has existed for many years, but the budget that Congress wants to implement is about there not being a limit on Visas or in other words a very long wait for these people to obtain their Green Card .
That’s what Congress is trying to do, but right now this law exists and always has existed, it’s a three-step process:
The minor with their Guardian or their support has to file a court the state where they live for example the state of California can go to court to argue that they were abused abandoned there was a level of abuse neglect through one or but two of their parents, what can happen is that the court can give them a guardian, someone who takes care of them.
It may also be that this is a single mom family court, a single dad can argue that the mom dad should have full 100% custody over this minor due to the fact that they were abandoned, mistreated, there was a level of neglect by one two of his parents.
Applying for special juvenile status is an application that messes with the immigration office, this proposal tries to change the waiting time for applying for special juvenile status.
Unfortunately, this step for certain countries is taking a long time, we are talking about the countries of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, because the State Department has set a visa limit for those countries.
In other words, this person cannot go to step number 3 because there is a limit of Visas available now we want to change this so that the person can immediately achieve the Green Card
We can take the first part to file a case within the state of California arguing that this minor was mistreated, there was a level of abandonment, or if not, neglect by one or both of his parents.
Now if you know someone who is under the age of 21 who can make the argument that they were abandoned, mistreated, there was a level of neglect by one or two of their parents, it is very important that they contact a lawyer for advice about this program.
