Ajay Bhutoria slams Trump’s reversal of CSPA age calculation policy

He warned that reverting to the Final Action Dates chart would worsen delays and jeopardize the legal status of South Asian children.

Donald Trump and Ajay Bhutoria / / Wikipedia/File Photo

Indian American community leader and former Biden advisor Ajay Jain Bhutoria criticized the Trump administration’s reversal of a 2023 immigration policy that protected children of South Asian immigrants from “aging out” of green card eligibility.

“I am deeply troubled by the Trump administration’s recent decision to reverse a critical policy I helped shape,” Bhutoria, who served as a member of the Biden administration’s Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Commission, said in a statement.

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Bhutoria noted that under his leadership, the AANHPI Commission recommended in December 2022 that USCIS allow aged-out children to retain their parents’ green card priority dates. The Biden administration adopted the change in February 2023, safeguarding more than 250,000 young South Asians who grew up in the U.S. but face self-deportation due to visa backlogs.

“This change by USCIS reverts the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) age calculation to the Final Action Dates chart, undoing the 2023 Biden-era policy that used the Dates for Filing chart to protect children of South Asian immigrants—especially Indian and other H-1B families—from aging out of green card eligibility.”

He warned that reverting to the Final Action Dates chart—which typically lags the dates for filing by years—would worsen delays and jeopardize the legal status of these children. “The shift to Final Action Dates reverses progress for the South Asian diaspora,” he said.

Bhutoria called on South Asian community leaders, advocates, and policymakers to oppose the reversal and support legislative fixes like the America’s Children Act. “Our youth deserve fairness and a secure future in the land they call home,” he said.

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