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Under the Circumstances, the Filing of a Family Offense Petition Against the Father and the Issuance of an Order of Protection Made the Children Dependent on a Juvenile Court, a Prerequisite for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status

The Second Department determined Family Court erred when it found the children were not dependent on a juvenile court, a prerequisite for special immigrant juvenile status (SIJS).  The mother had filed a family offense proceeding against the father and the allegations in the petition had been substantiated:

Contrary to the Family Court’s determination, in support of their motion, the children established that they were dependent upon a juvenile court. While guardianship, adoption, and custody are not directly or presently at issue in this family offense proceeding …, under the particular circumstances of this case, the children have become dependent upon the Family Court. The children’s mother has filed a family offense petition against the father seeking an order of protection, alleging that the father has assaulted her and the children. In their motion, the children claimed that they have been neglected by the father based on allegations including physical, mental, and verbal abuse. After conducting an investigation, the Administration for Children’s Services concluded that certain of these allegations were substantiated. On May 6, 2013, shortly after the children made their motion, the Family Court issued an order of protection, effective for two years, directing the father, inter alia, to stay away from the mother and the children.

While a family offense proceeding, or the mere issuance of an order of protection, will not always give rise to a determination that a child has become dependent upon a juvenile court, based on the particular circumstances of this case, we conclude that such a determination is warranted here. As we have previously observed, the intended beneficiaries of the SIJS provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act are limited to ” those juveniles for whom it was created, namely abandoned, neglected, or abused children'” … . Thus, while, for example, a child support proceeding will not give rise to a determination that a child has become dependent upon a juvenile court (see Matter of Hei Ting C., 109 AD3d 100), under the proper circumstances, a child involved in a family offense proceeding involving allegations of abuse or neglect may properly be the subject of such a determination as an intended beneficiary of the SIJS provisions. Matter of Fifo v Fifo, 2015 NY Slip Op 02762, 2nd Dept 4-1-15

 

 

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