Thousands of Troubled Former Teens Are Using Up Scarce EB-4 Visas
By David North, June 6, 2017
There is an exploding number of young people getting green cards because they have a particular attribute — they are, in the words of the Department of Homeland Security, "juvenile court dependents". That is how they are described in the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics (Table 7).
These aliens do not get anything as minimal as the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) benefits; they obtain full permanent resident alien status; complete with instant legal Social Security numbers, and three to five years later, the opportunity to become naturalized citizens. It also gives them the opportunity to start filing DHS petitions on behalf of their relatives — the term is chain migration.
The number of petitions approved (an initial stage in the process of getting a visa or an adjustment) for the court dependents has soared from 1,590 in FY 2010 to 15,101 in FY 2016. And though some come from all over the world, fully half of the victims/beneficiaries are nationals of just four nations: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico.
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