Abstract
This note focuses on the Child Status Protection Act, passed by Congress in 2002 to allow individuals who turn 21 while their permanent residence paperwork is pending to preserve their eligibility as children. The note addresses the various reactions of the enforcing government authorities, practitioners, and courts since the Act's passage. In addition, the author explores the Act's place among other recent legislation and government agency policies purporting to advance the theme of family unity in immigration. Ultimately, the author suggests that the statutory stop-the-clock approach embodied by the Act seems not only inconsistent with its predecessors, which have expanded benefits and legal rights, but also seems ill-equipped to embrace a fuller panoply of family unity issues and themes important to the nature of immigration.
Recommended Citation
Shane Dizon,
The Child Status Protection Act: Does Immigration Math Solve the Family Unity Equation,
16 Hastings Women's L.J. 117
(2005).
Available at: https://repository.uclawsf.edu/hwlj/vol16/iss1/4