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Special Immigrant Juvenile Status: Latest Tips, Tools, Bench Book and Best Practices for Judges

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Slides from an NCJFCJ presentation which informed judges on how to better understand the role Congress and the DHS delegated to state court judges in cases involving SIJS, how to identify SIJS eligible children in a wide range of family court cases, and know how to issue SIJS findings as part of state court orders that the court issues when addressing custody/placement of a child. The training provides guidance for state court judges including SIJS judicial determinations.