Child Status Protection Act
Calculate CSPA Age and Check Visa Eligibility of Child
In order to calculate a child’s age according to CSPA and to find whether the child is eligible to get visa you need to know following details.
Priority Date:It is the date when your Petition was filed.
Approval Date: The date when your immigrant petition was approved by USCIS. You can find your priority date on your Form I-797
Visa Availability date: A visa availability date means an immigrant visa number is available as per chart A in the Visa Bulletin.
Date of Birth of the Child
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UNDERSTAND THE TERMS
Priority Date:
It is the date when your Petition was filed.
Approval Date
The date when your immigrant petition was approved by USICS, such as when Form I-130 was approved by family-based immigration or when Form I-140 was approved for employment-based immigration. You can find your priority date on your Form I-797
Visa Bulletin Current Date:
A visa bulletin current date means an immigrant visa number is available and scheduled for interview
(Note: Visa officer will calculate your CSPA on the interview date)
Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) INA 203 (H) Flow Chart
The Most Common Questions Asked For CSPA
What is “Aging Out”?
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) describes a child as an applicant who is unmarried and under 21 years old. When a child applies for adjustment of status, or consular processing, but when the application is being adjudicated, the child turns 21 then that child becomes ineligible for a green card, and this situation is known as aging out. This happens due to large backlogs and long processing times for visa petitions. The Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) prevents children from “Aging Out” of eligibility for permanent residence.
How Does The Child Status Protection Act Help?
CSPA provides a way for calculating a person’s age to check if they meet the definition of a child for immigration purposes. The calculated age is that the child’s “CSPA age.” this permits some individuals to remain classified as children beyond their twenty-first birthday. However, CSPA doesn’t change the need that you simply should be unmarried in order to remain eligible for classification as a child.
What is CSPA Eligibility Criteria?
CSPA applies only to the subsequent people
How Does CSPA Works For Immediate Relatives?
If you’re an immediate relative, a VAWA self-petitioning abused spouse or child of a U.S. citizen, or a derivative kid of a VAWA self-petitioning abused spouse or child of a U.S. citizen, Age gets frozen on the date the Form I-360 and Form I-130 has filed. If you were under the age of twenty-one at the time the petition was filed, you’re eligible for CSPA and will not age out. However, you need to stay unmarried in order to qualify.
How CSPA Works For Preference Categories?
CSPA allows the time a visa petition was pending to be subtracted from the beneficiary’s biological age at the time of visa availability so that the applicant is not penalized for the time in which USCIS did not adjudicate the petition.
How Can You Freeze Your Age in Order to be Eligible For Immigration?
If the CSPA age calculates out to be less than 21, then the children can apply for “seek to acquire” visa within a span of 1 year from the date when their application gained current status from priority status.
In many cases, the visa is being denied even after the CSPA age calculated out to be 21 years or lesser. It was for the only reason that the concerned child did not apply to “seek to acquire” visa within 1 year from the date when his application gained current status from priority.
To Avoid this, One Should Apply for the “Seek to Acquire” Visa in Timelines by Completing any of the Below Forms.
CSPA Details Following 3 Scenarios Wherein the Age of The Children Will be Frozen:
In case a child wishes to stay abroad for work or study purposes or any other purposes instead of immigrating to the US, he /she will continue to be the child of the US parent until the time his/her petition gets cancelled.
In the meantime, he/she can migrate anytime to the US as an immediate relative until they remain single or visa petition gets cancelled.
What Would be the Option For Your U.S. Immigration Dream to Come True After Getting Your Name Removed From the Existing Petition?
There are still many options to fulfil your dream of immigrating to United States and to join your family in US. Contact Us for expert advice on your case and to know the best possible option to Immigrate to US.
