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Room in Albany courthouse for foster kids to read, play video games
ALBANY — Spouse and children Court docket judges preside more than some of the saddest conditions in the Capital Region. And outdoors their courtrooms, it might be just as bleak — in particular for a little one in foster treatment. The kids usually wait on benches all over distressed litigants making ready for instances that include boy or girl custody and visitation legal rights, juvenile delinquency, abuse and neglect, contested matrimonial issues and maybe the decline of parental rights. It can get ugly. Which is why on Friday, Albany County Govt Daniel McCoy, a county commissioner and a number of judges were in Household Court on Clinton Avenue to unveil…
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Green Card Seekers’ Kids Get Protections in New Biden Policy
A policy update by US Citizenship and Immigration Services will add protections for children of temporary visa holders from losing their legal status while their parents’ green card applications are pending. The update will allow children and young adults with a dependent visa to lock in their age earlier in the application process for a green card. There are more than 200,000 so-called “documented dreamers” in the US at risk of aging out of legal status at age 21 while waiting for permanent residency based on their parents’ employment-based green card application. Most of those young people are nationals of India and China, who face especially long wait times because…
