Circuit Courts. Once the federal district court has decided a case, the case can be appealed to a United States court of appeal. There are twelve federal circuits that divide the country into different regions. The Fifth Circuit, for example, includes the states of Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
DACA applicants had to be younger than 31 years old when the program began. They also had to prove that they had lived in the United States continuously since June 15, 2007, and that they had arrived in the U.S. before the age of 16.
DACA requires people be younger than 16 when they arrived in the U.S., and that they came before mid-2007. The expansion would lift the current age cap for DACA, which also requires a high school education and a relatively clean criminal record.