In a tremendous victory, the Faegre & Benson Children’s Asylum Team won Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) for a young woman from Uganda.  The girl, orphaned in the United States when her mother died, was left without immigration status when her mother’s pending application for asylum was terminated.  Dianne Heins’ expertise in family and juvenile court matters quickly identified a possible solution to the technical posture of the case, in which a family member had sought guardianship pro se.  The family member was referred to pro bono counsel at Fredrikson & Bryon, P.A.  The team obtained a juvenile court order of guardianship, rather than the standard CHIPS order, to support a petition for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The creative work of the Faegre team resulted in a grant of lawful permanent resident status for this orphaned child.