Your child is almost 21. Your family has been waiting for a U.S. Green Card. Does turning 21 mean your child automatically loses the case? Not necessarily. For some family-based and employment-based immigration cases, the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) can protect a child from “aging out” at 21. But CSPA is not an automatic extension of childhood. The calculation depends on several dates in the immigration case, including the child’s date of birth, the petition’s processi