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RIN: 1615-AB81

Publication ID: Spring 2022

Title: Special Immigrant Juvenile Petitions
Abstract: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a final rule on March 8, 2022, 87 FR 13066 to amend its regulations governing the Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) classification and related applications for adjustment of status to lawful permanent resident. Special Immigrant Juvenile classification is a humanitarian-based immigration classification for children who a State court has found cannot be reunified with one or both parents because of abuse, neglect, abandonment, or a similar basis found under State law, and meet certain other criteria. This final rule implemented updates to eligibility requirements and other changes made by the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, Public Law 110-457, as well as responded to comments received on the proposed rule in 2011 and in 2019 when the comment period was reopened.
Agency: Department of Homeland Security(DHS)	Priority: Other Significant
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Completed Actions
Major: No	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 8 CFR 204 and 205 8 CFR 245
Legal Authority: 8 U.S.C. 1101 8 U.S.C. 1103 8 U.S.C. 1151 8 U.S.C. 1153 to 1155 8 U.S.C. 1182 8 U.S.C. 1184 8 U.S.C. 1641 ...

Legal Deadline: None

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
NPRM	09/06/2011	76 FR 54978
NPRM Comment Period End	11/07/2011
Proposed Rule; Reopening of the Comment Period	10/16/2019	84 FR 55250
Comment Period Reopening End	11/15/2019
Final Action	03/08/2022	87 FR 13066

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No	Government Levels Affected: Federal, State
Small Entities Affected: No	Federalism: No
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
RIN Information URL: www.regulations.gov	Public Comment URL: www.regulations.gov
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No
Agency Contact: Rena Cutlip-Mason Chief, Division of Humanitarian Affairs, OP&S Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services 5900 Capital Gateway Drive, Camp Springs, MD 20746 Phone:240 721-3000