America’s CHILDREN Act of 2025
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- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
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Overview
The America’s CHILDREN Act of 2025 aims to provide lawful permanent resident status to college graduates who entered the United States as children. It modifies immigration law to allow individuals meeting specific criteria – including educational attainment, years spent lawfully present in the U.S. as a dependent child, and subsequent years of lawful presence – to apply for permanent residency. The bill also includes provisions to clarify the determination of ‘child’ status and to protect the priority dates of beneficiaries, particularly those who were dependent children of visa holders.
Key provisions
- Expands eligibility for lawful permanent resident status to college graduates who entered the U.S. as dependent children.
- Establishes requirements for age determination, including considering the date of petition filing or initial nonimmigrant petition.
- Provides a mechanism for reopening or reconsidering denials of petitions based on the new ‘child’ status determination.
- Includes a provision to retain priority dates for beneficiaries, linking them to the filing date of the initial petition or labor certification.
- Clarifies the definition of a ‘dependent child’ for derivative beneficiaries.
- Allows dependent children to change or extend their status even if they marry.
- Authorizes dependent children to engage in employment in the United States.
- Addresses age-out protections, clarifying how a determination of child status is made.
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