What is derivative refugee or asylee status?
This is known as “derivative” refugee or asylee status, since they will be deriving this status from you after you were admitted to the U.S. as a refugee or received a grant of asylum. This petition has a two-year filing deadline, but we may still accept your petition after two years for humanitarian reasons.
When does a derivative asylee no longer qualify for adjustment status?
Likewise, if the principal is no longer a refugee or adjusted asylee at the time a derivative seeks to adjust status, then the derivative asylee will no longer qualify.
What is the difference between a principal and derivative asylee?
The principal asylee continues to meet the definition of a refugee, or the derivative asylee continues to be the spouse or child of the principal asylee. The asylee has not firmly resettled in any foreign country.
Can a child be approved for derivative asylum status?
Not be subject to one of the mandatory asylum bars, including the persecutor bar, if they are seeking derivative asylum status. Accompanying you, meaning you include them in your original application for refugee or asylee status filed. We will approve your child for derivative status as part of your case.
Can an asylee apply for derivative status for minor children?
If the applicant has minor children abroad, and testified about the opposite sex relationship that resulted in the children, he should be able to apply for derivative status for the children. The asylee must petition for immediate relatives within a two-year period after being granted asylum.
What is derivative asylum and who can apply?
Often asylum seekers want protection not just for themselves but for their families. Anyone seeking asylum may include a spouse and children under the age of 21 on the I-589 form. Derivative asylum is designed to give that same option to people who have already been granted asylum.
What is derderivative asylum?
Derivative asylum is designed to give that same option to people who have already been granted asylum. Stepchildren are eligible if the applicant and spouse married before the child’s eighteenth birthday; adopted children must have been adopted before their sixteenth birthday and the applicant must have been a legal parent for at least two years.