Practice Alert: Guidance on Adjustment of Status for Youth with Special Immigrant Juvenile Status Using INA § 245(h) with a Non-SIJS Petition

There is a largely un-tested legal argument that young people with approved SIJS petitions can use the SIJS-specific adjustment provisions at INA § 245(h) to satisfy the “inspected and admitted or paroled” requirement that applies to many other forms of adjustment, allowing the youth with SIJS to use that provision even if they are not seeking adjustment based on their approved SIJS petition but rather using some other non-SIJS immigrant petition. This practice alert from the End SIJS Backlog Co