New York, NY immigration attorney Robert B. Scott talks about the options to obtain legal status for minors. He points out that many minors who may not have legal status sometimes have U.S. citizen parents or parents who hold green cards. In such cases, there may be opportunities to attain legal status through those family relationships. Additionally, minors who are orphans, abandoned, or abused have access to special laws designed to help them secure legal status in the United States under certain circumstances.