Lock Age Bulletin For Free

If you were under the age of 21 at the time of your parent's interview, your age is frozen as of that date and you will not age out. While you must be unmarried to qualify for admission into the U.S. as a derivative refugee, you do not need to remain unmarried in order to qualify for a Green Card under INA section 209.

Under the new CSPA rule, the child is not considered to have aged out and would be eligible for a Green Card through his/her parents as the child's age was locked in on the very date of filing, i.e. under the Dates of Filing chart rather than under the old rule locked in under the Final Action chart.

If the calculated ?CSPA age? is under 21, then even though the person's biological age is over 21, they will still be able to immigrate as if they are under 21. In order to use a CSPA age, they must also ?seek to acquire? within one year (see below for more on the ?seek to acquire? requirement).

If you were under the age of 21 at the time your parent filed Form I-589, your age is frozen as of that date and you will not age out. Unlike derivative refugees, you must be unmarried in order to qualify for a grant of derivative asylum and to qualify for a Green Card under INA section 209.

In other words, the child's age will be ?frozen? when the I-485 application is filed based on the Date of Filing Chart, even if a visa number is not yet available under the Final Action Chart.

Yes, the CSPA does apply to the F4 category.

How to Freeze the child's age in the F4 -Category Petition? A child's CSPA adjusted age can be frozen or locked in only on the date of visa availability. Visa availability occurs on the first day of the month when the filing date of the specific petitioner is prior the date listed in the Visa Bulletin.