{"id":1860,"date":"2024-05-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaganimmigration.com\/a-mothers-love-gains-daughter-safety-and-status\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:26:13","slug":"a-mothers-love-gains-daughter-safety-and-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaganimmigration.com\/en\/a-mothers-love-gains-daughter-safety-and-status\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mother\u2019s Love Gains Daughter Safety and Status"},"content":{"rendered":"By Kasey Husk <\/strong>\n\nAt Eagan Immigration, we know every immigrant has their own reason for choosing to leave their country of origin. Some are fleeing violence or poverty, some want to seek more educational opportunities or reunite with other family members who have gone before them. Yet far and away the most common reason we hear at Eagan Immigration is not<\/em> that our clients want these things for themselves. It\u2019s that they want opportunities and safety and security for their beloved children.\n\nIn the month of May, many nations take the opportunity to celebrate mothers. In much of Latin America, the D\u00eda de las Madres is celebrated on May 10 every year. In the United States, Mother\u2019s Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of each month; in 2024, Mother\u2019s Day is May 12. With this in mind, Eagan Immigration would like to celebrate one of our clients, whose determination and courage allowed her to daughter to escape the danger she faced in her native Colombia.\n\n*Names and some details have been changed to protect our clients\u2019 privacy.<\/em>\n\nValentina\u2019s Story<\/strong>\n\n\u201cValentina,\u201d a native of Colombia, could not have been happier when her firstborn child was placed in her arms in 2006. She knew she would do everything in her power to give the little girl she christened \u201cCarolina\u201d the best life possible, and she believed her child\u2019s father felt the same. Unfortunately, however, Valentina\u2019s father thought different. Within only a few years of Carolina\u2019s birth, he abandoned the family and refused to support his child.\n\nValentina was already struggling to support her child with the help of family members, when war came to the family\u2019s doorstep. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (\u201cFARC\u201d) was a group of guerrilla revolutionaries who financed their decades-long battle against the Colombian government through tactics like kidnapping, extortion and drug trafficking.\n\nThese fighters came to Valetina\u2019s home and began demanding \u201crents\u201d from her and her family. Valentina did not have the money to pay, and time was running out. She was terrified Carolina would be kidnapped to force her hand, or else killed to punish her for her failure to comply. Left with no other options, Valentina did the only thing she could: she fled.\n\nShe and Carolina arrived in the United States in 2016, where they joined other family members who fled for the same reasons. Valentina breathed a sigh of relief when she arrived because she knew her daughter was safe. However, she also knew that without status in the United States, she and her daughter would always be in danger of being sent back to Colombia, where they would be in more danger than ever.\n\nThat\u2019s where Eagan Immigration came in Valentina reached out to Eagan in hopes that the firm\u2019s immigration experts could help her navigate a way forward, and after a consultation and extensive research, Eagan attorneys concluded that Carolina qualified for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS).\n\nThis status is available to undocumented minors who have been abused, abandoned, or neglected by a parent, and thus require the protection of the United States. Since Carolina\u2019s father abandoned her in their native Colombia, Eagan could help her apply for this status. She first applied for this status in January 2021, and within six months, she received notice that her petition was approved, qualifying her for benefits like travel authorization and a work permit when she became old enough to work.\n\nEven better news came just a few months later, however, when Carolina received her green card. <\/strong>Eagan attorneys helped Carolina to apply for permanent residence in the United States at the same time she applied for SIJS. In October 2021, the Carolina and her mother opened their mail to find the words \u201cWelcome to the United States\u201d staring back at them.\n\nToday, Carolina is a lawful permanent resident of the United States and in only a few more years, she will be eligible to naturalize as a U.S. citizen. Valetina\u2019s determination and the sacrifices she made to get her daughter status have paid off, and as Carolina reaches adulthood this year, she will have opportunities that never would have been available to her when she was undocumented.\n

Other options for mothers to gain status in the United States<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\nWhile family petitions are one way Eagan clients gain status in the United States, that is not always possible in every situation. Fortunately, Eagan specializes in many other types of petitions that can help our clients gain status. \u00a0<\/strong>\n

T Nonimmigrant Status (T Visa) for victims of human trafficking <\/strong><\/h4>\nMany of our clients have endured unimaginable hardship to protect their children. In some cases, that has meant leaving them behind with family while they go to work in the United States, always hoping to earn enough money to break the cycle of poverty for their kids.\n\nIn other cases, it means risking their lives to help the children themselves escape certain disaster in their country of origin. Having children is also often a pressure point used by abusive partners or employers to force parents to work against the will, lest they endanger their children. Getting a T Visa, however, can help clients free themselves from these scenarios (or recover from them emotionally) by giving them a pathway to permanent residency in the United States.\n\nAt Eagan, we can seek T Visa status for clients in many scenarios, even unconventional ones. Options include:\n