Aging Out - Collecting Stories for an Amicus Brief to the Ninth Circuit

[MaverickLal101]

Here’s some good news: the Ninth Circuit has agreed to re-hear the Child Status Protection Act class action litigation, Cuellar de Osorio v. Holder. If they rule in favor of the petitioners, thousands of young people with legal resident parents and young adults separated from their parents will become eligible for green cards.

I'm working on behalf of a law firm and immigrant youth organization to write an amicus brief. We are looking for stories of people who have been affected by this. The best kind of cases would be ones where the legal immigrant parents subsequently filed a new petition on behalf of the aged-out unmarried adult son/daughter, attempting to retain the original priority date and USCIS refused, placing the adult unmarried son/daughter in deportation proceedings.

But your story doesn’t have to be limited to that fact-pattern. In short, if you have a case where the parents got their green cards but their own children got left out of the process because they were over 21, please shoot me an email at plal@law.gwu.edu or message me.

Your name can be redacted or providing an alias is alright. You can choose to remain confidential and still partake in this historic case.

[yvjoshi100]

I sent you an email. Please contact me at yvjoshi100@hotmail.com.