Oregon Revised Statutes

Or. Rev. Stat. § 418.925 (2026)

“Refugee child” defined

✓ current as of May 2026

Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section ORSoregonlegislature.gov JustiaChapter on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

418.925 “Refugee child” defined. As used in ORS 418.925 to 418.945, “refugee child” is a person under 18 years of age who has entered the United States and is unwilling or unable to return to the person’s country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, membership in a particular group or political opinion, or whose parents entered the United States within the preceding 10 years and are or were unwilling or unable to return to their country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, membership in a particular group or political opinion. [1985 c.358 §1; 2007 c.100 §25; 2021 c.367 §23]

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 2000–2010 · leading case: Dep't of Human Servs. v. M. J., 236 P.3d 795 (Or. Ct. App. 2010).

Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment

Dep't of Human Servs. v. M. J., 236 P.3d 795 (Or. Ct. App. 2010). · cites it 15× “On appeal, the dispute concerns the applicability of the Refugee Child Welfare Act (RCWA), ORS 418.925 - 418.945, which imposes heightened standards in cases involving a “refugee child.”

State ex rel Juv. Dep't v. Bertrand, 7 P.3d 662 (Or. Ct. App. 2000). · cites it 3× “Their primary contention on appeal is that the state cannot terminate their parental rights because the State Office of Services to Children and Families (SOSCF) and the juvenile court failed to comply with the refugee child statutes, ORS 418.925 through ORS 418.945. We write to…”

Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.