EB-5: How to Determine Whether Children of an Immigration VISA Petitioner is likely to be Ineligible

| January 16, 2015

The Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) allows certain children who are derivative beneficiaries of an immigrant visa petition to be classified as a “child” under the INA even if the child has already reached the age of 21 years old.

Visa Retrogression—i.e., circumstances in which a visa was available per the Visa Bulletin in one month, but then in a subsequent month the cut-off date retrogresses such that the visa is no longer available—can be particularly problematic for derivatives.

Important Factors for Evaluation:

  1. Whether the petitioner’s derivative is unmarried (and remains unmarried until obtaining permanent residence) and otherwise meets the definition of a “child” of the I-526 petitioner.
  2. Whether the actual age of the child on the date when a VISA becomes available for the petitioner is (1) after the first day of the month that the Department of State indicates that a VISA is available based on the petitioner’s priority date; or (2) the date the I-526 petition is approved if a VISA is already available on the date of approval.
  3. Determine the child’s CSPA age by subtracting the number of days the petition was pending.
  4. If the petitioner’s child filed I-485 immediately on the date the petitioner’s visa becomes available, then child’s CSPA age will be frozen on the date when I-485 is filed.

Calculation Example:

The months of I-526 was pending = I-526 approval Date – I-526 filing Date

CSPA age = child’s age on the visa available date – The months of I-526 was pending

 

 

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EB-5: 如何判定跟随父母移民申请的子女是否超齡

根據兒童年齡保護法，如果申请I-526家庭中的子女在等待审批过程中年滿21歲，仍可以以兒童身份跟隨父母申請移民 。

但是當移民名額排期出現倒退，也就是簽證排期進度從沒有排期變成排期截止日倒退，將會對申請人快滿21周歲子女的移民申請非常不利。因為遞交I-485或DS260綠卡申請可以凍結子女年齡，而簽證排期倒退使申請人子女無法遞交綠卡申請。

 

跟随父母移民申请的子女是否超齡的主要決定因素包括：

  1. 隨父母申請的子女是否符合兒童定義：兒童是指21歲以下未婚子女（並要在獲得永久居留權時一直保持未婚狀態）
  1. 如果子女符合兒童定義，接下來就要確定子女在移民申請名額到期時的實際年齡在申請人簽證排期時的實際年齡（1）在美國國務院公佈移民排期生效第一天的實際年齡；或（2）在有移民名額的前提下，I-526申請獲准的日期。
  1. 從子女實際年齡中減去申請人I-526申請待批的時間，從而獲得申請人子女的兒童年齡保護法年齡。
  1. 申請人子女若在有移民名額時及時遞交I-485綠卡申請，子女的CSPA年齡將被凍結。

 

計算公式如下：

I-526待批的時間 = I-526 申請獲批時間 – I-526 申請遞交時間

子女CSPA年齡 =子女在移民申請名額到期時的實際年齡 – I-526待批的時間

 

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