The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service has reported that it will begin accepting application for the newly expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on February 18, 2015. This announcement comes 40 days after President Obama spoke on the need for executive actions on immigration and is available at http://www.uscis.gov/immigrationaction.

Importantly, if you were eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals as announced in 2012 except you were not under the age of 31, you may now be eligible to file under the expanded DACA provisions. The requirements for the expanded DACA are listed at http://www.uscis.gov/immigrationaction#daca.