If the applicant turns 21 during the immigration process, i.e. if he/she exceeds the prescribed age, he/she is generally no longer entitled to reside with the parents on the basis of the application.
There is big news for Indians living in America. President Joe Biden’s administration has changed the rules for making visas. According to a report, US President Joe Biden’s administration has announced an update to a policy manual for the purpose of calculating the age of an immigrant in certain situations under the Child Status Protection Act (CSAPA). Key’s.
This step may be small, but it is being seen as an important step to remove the problems of those people, whose age limit to obtain visa has passed. However, he came to the US legally as a child with his parents. A large number of them are Indians.
21 years of age to obtain permanent resident status
Applicants must be under 21 years of age to obtain lawful permanent resident status in the United States based on their parent’s approved application for a family-sponsored or employment-based visa. If the applicant turns 21 during the immigration process, i.e. if he/she exceeds the prescribed age, he/she is generally no longer entitled to reside with the parents on the basis of the application.
Rejected application can be filed again
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has officially made the policy change that we are looking for, said Deep Patel of Improvedream.org, who leads the nearly 200,000 people facing difficulties due to overage. Been requesting for a long time. USCIS will use the ‘filing chart’ dates to determine the age of the CSPA and previously denied applications can be refiled.
Age will be calculated from the dates of filing chart
The federal agency said that USCIC will use the ‘Dates of Filing Chart’ instead of the ‘Final Action Date Chart’ for the purpose of calculating the age of these immigrants for CSPA under the new guidelines. The US State Department’s Visa Bulletin is used to determine when a visa number will be available. There are two charts in the Visa Bulletin – ‘Dates of Filing Chart’ and ‘Final Action Date Chart’.
