India is the seventh-largest source country in the United States’ Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) programme, according to a USCIS report, Criminality, Gangs, and Program Integrity Concerns in Special Immigrant Juvenile Petition. The report combines data of SIJ petitions filed between 2014 and 2024. The SIJ programme, originally intended to provide relief to abused, abandoned, or neglected children, is now facing scrutiny over potential misuse.India is the only country outside the western hemisphere to feature in the top 10, making its presence in the rankings significant.It identified serious vulnerabilities in the system, noting that nearly 1,98,500 petitions were approved from 2020 to 2024, with more than half filed by applicants aged between 18 and 21. For India, the findings reveale