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.