United States Supreme Court

The Ninth Circuit erred in holding that the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) unambiguously entitled all aged-out derivative beneficiaries on whose behalf parents filed immigration petitions to automatic conversion and prior priority date retention, where the Board of Immigration Appeals permissibly interpreted the CSPA as providing relief to only a subset of that group, specifically, those aged-out aliens who qualified or could have qualified as principal beneficiaries of a visa petition, rather than only as derivative beneficiaries piggy-backing on a parent.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/09/2014
• Published 06/09/2014

Judges

• KAGAN

Court

• United States Supreme Court

Counsel