Not exact matches
The children, who come from countries including Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, typically are
eligible for either special immigrant juvenile status or
asylum due to the dangerous and often violent situations they are fleeing from in their home countries.
Administrative closure of a case is typically granted when the judge decides the child seeking
asylum might be
eligible for some sort of immigration relief.
The reality is that while some clients may be able to pay privately
for the Art 8 parts of their case (which is of course a bonus to the firm on top of the fixed fee they would otherwise get from legal aid funding), many more can not afford to do so (if they have been assessed as
eligible on means
for public funding
for the
asylum part of the case it is hard to see how they are expected to have easy access to private funding
for the Art 8 part of their case).
Applicants
for asylum are
eligible for Marketplace coverage only if they've been granted employment authorization or are under the age of 14 and have had an application pending
for at least 180 days.
In a judgment delivered today the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that homo - and bisexual persons are
eligible groups
for claiming
asylum in EU and they can not be requested to conceal their sexual orientation (X, Y, Z v Minister voor Immigratie en Asiel).
In addition to their other cases, the students are all working on several
asylum cases, representing clients from all over the world, and seeking custody orders and filing petitions with USCIS
for many juveniles who are
eligible for SIJS status (which can lead to legal permanent residency).