The America's CHILDREN Act creates a pathway to permanent residency for certain foreign-born college graduates who came to the United States as children of workers on employment-based visas. To qualify, applicants must have lived lawfully in the U.S. for at least 10 years total (with at least 8 years as a dependent child of an employed nonimmigrant), graduated from a U.S. college or university, and not be deportable or inadmissible under current law. The bill also includes protections that allow young people who "age out" of dependent status while their parents' employment-based immigration cases are pending to retain their eligibility and their place in the immigration queue, and it permits people whose petitions were previously denied to reapply within two years of the law's enactment if they would have qualified under these new rules. No specific funding or implementation timeline is specified in the legislation itself.
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