End SIJS Backlog Coalition Guidance and Templates for Commenting in Response to USCIS’s Policy Changes Eliminating SIJS Deferred Action

End SIJS Backlog Coalition Guidance and Templates for Commenting in Response to USCIS’s Policy Changes Eliminating SIJS Deferred Action

End SIJS Backlog Coalition & National Immigration Project • July 7 & 28, 2025

Organizations and individuals can submit comments to USCIS on two recent agency actions that harm youth with Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS): (1) a USCIS policy change that eliminates the SIJS Deferred Action Policy, and (2) proposed changes to Form G-325A that would eliminate requests for deferred action based on SIJS. The deadline for comments addressing #1 is July 7, 2025 11:59pm ET and for #2 is July 28, 2025 11:59pm ET.