One of the Most Obscure Green Card Categories: Abused Parents of U.S. Citizens
By David North on December 31, 2019
One of the most obscure, least attractive, and hardest-to-secure ways of getting green card status is to claim that the alien has been abused or battered by one's citizen children. (Green card holders, on the other hand, can beat up on their parents to their hearts' content and it will not produce any immigration benefits for the victims.)
Whether this is conscious policy or not, the current leadership of USCIS is approaching the problem by pushing it to one side. In FY 2018 there were 1,007 applications for this benefit, resulting in 49 approvals. That's better than 20:1 odds against the applicants.
There were a substantial number of denials in this category, 133; this from an agency that routinely says yes about 90 percent of the time, but that's only a small fraction of the answer. Between the end of FY 2017 and the end of FY 2018, the number of pending cases increased by 812.
https://cis.org/North/One-Most-Obscure-Green-Card-Categories-Abused-Parents-US-Citizens
