Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS)

General Information 

•  NEW!!  Public Counsel 2009 Special Immigrant Juvenile Status Manual

• Special Immigrant Juvenile Status Provisions of Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act :

         Neufeld Memorandum on SIJS Provisions of the TVPRA

         Link to Materials from ILRC Webinar Highlighting Changes in Implementing TVPRA

• Transcript of AILA's December 1, 2005 National Teleconference on Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS)  
• Moderated by Christopher Nugent from Holland & Knight, LLP.  Presenters included John Pogash, National Juvenile Coordinator, ICE and Andrew Morton from Latham & Watkins.

• Shah, Ragini. Special Immigrant Juvenile Status: Report from Columbia Law School’s Child Advocacy Clinic and Society For Immigrant and Refugee Rights.  
• The Child Advocacy Clinic and the Society for Immigrant and Refugee Rights conducted surveys of organizations in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL, Miami, FL, and Portland, OR. 
• These surveys supplement the information provided Darryl Hamm’s article tracking the trends in New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles CA.  This report is a summary by topic of areas surveyed by the students and information from the Hamm article.

• SIJS as Defined by General Provisions of INA law 
• Text of provision within the Immigration and Naturalization Act

• Definition and Chronology of SIJS
• Excerpt from INA law summarizing SIJ law provision
• Flow chart of chronology of an SIJ case

• House of Representatives Conference Report on SIJS
• Report from the Appropriations Committee: sec. 113 discusses amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act which addresses problems encountered with the implementation of the SIJ provision.
• Requires the Attorney General to determine that neither the dependency order nor the administrative or judicial determination of the alien's best interest was sought to obtain legal status but rather to obtain relief from abuse or neglect.
• Removes jurisdiction from State juvenile courts to consider the custody status or placement of such aliens unless the Attorney General specifically grants consent to such jurisdiction.