F4 immigrants are older. How to apply for children's overage protection?

On August 6th, 2002, US President Bush signed the Child Identity Protection Act (CSPA). Before the introduction of this bill, whether a child is over-age depends on the age when the application is approved. The lengthy process makes many children over 2 1 year-old lose many opportunities for over-age children to get green cards before their immigration applications are approved. Instead of mechanically stipulating "2 1 year", the age of children is frozen under certain conditions, making it possible for over-aged children to get green cards again. It is a change in the calculation method of children's age, and whether they are over-age still needs to be analyzed according to the specific situation stipulated in the Law on the Protection of Children's Identity.

The CSPA Act generally applies to the following categories:

1). Green card application for children of American citizens (no quota);

2). Relatives of all kinds of priority immigrants (places);

3). Green card applications for children of various professional immigrants and lottery immigrants (places available);

4). Green card applications for children of refugees and government asylum immigrants.