AILA’s Advocacy Action Center allows you to advocate for legislative and policy reforms consistent with AILA’s principles and priorities.
Get InvolvedThe brand-new 18th edition of Kurzban's Immigration Law Sourcebook is now shipping.
Order NowLearn how to tackle challenges like finding and retaining affordable staff, working better in a hybrid or remote environment, when and how to raise fees, and much more.
Register NowAILALink puts an entire immigration law library at your fingertips! Search the AILALink database for all your practice needs—statutes, regs, case law, agency guidance, publications, and more.
AILA Doc. No. 18092605 | Dated September 26, 2018 | File Size: 616 K
Download the DocumentUSCIS issued a policy alert updating the USCIS Policy Manual with guidance to clarify certain special naturalization provisions for children.
In general, the spouse of a U.S. citizen who resides in the United States may be eligible for naturalization based on the marriage under section 319(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Children who have not already acquired U.S. citizenship through a parent may be eligible to naturalize under special provisions within INA 319. Qualified persons include children who obtained lawful permanent resident (LPR) status based on having been battered or subjected to extreme cruelty. In addition, surviving children of deceased U.S. armed forces members who died during a period of honorable service may also qualify. This updated Policy Manual guidance is controlling and supersedes any prior guidance.
This guidance is effective as of 9/26/18. Comments are due by 10/9/18.
[[To print the PDF on this page please use the print function in the PDF reader.]]
Cite as AILA Doc. No. 18092605.
Open the DocumentAmerican Immigration Lawyers Association
1331 G Street NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005
Copyright © 1993-
American Immigration Lawyers Association.
AILA.org should not be relied upon as the exclusive source for your legal research. Nothing on AILA.org constitutes legal advice, and information on AILA.org is not a substitute for independent legal advice based on a thorough review and analysis of the facts of each individual case, and independent research based on statutory and regulatory authorities, case law, policy guidance, and for procedural issues, federal government websites.