Overview

• Requests filed on or after August 15, 2025, will calculate a dependent child’s age under the Child Status Protection Act using the Final Action Dates chart rather than the Dates for Filing chart.
• Adjustment-of-status applications pending before the August 15 cutoff that relied on the February 14, 2023 policy will retain the earlier age-lock method.
• Applicants must seek permanent residency within one year of visa availability or demonstrate extraordinary circumstances to preserve their CSPA age protections.
• Advocates warn that thousands of children of Indian and Chinese H-1B workers in backlogged EB-2 and EB-3 categories could lose green card eligibility upon turning 21.
• Immigration groups estimate that roughly 200,000 children and young adults may be affected by the shift in age calculation methodology.