When are you considered an adult in the USA?
Age of majority
Up to age 15 Saudi Arabia[8] – age of majority is based on physical signs of puberty (bulugh), with age 15 as the upper limit. Iran[9] – 9 lunar years (female only), 15 lunar years (male only) Age 15 Indonesia[10] Myanmar[11] Yemen[12][note 1] Age 16 Cambodia[13] Cuba[14] Kyrgyzstan[15] Palestine Pakistan[16] (female only) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Scotland Vietnam[17] Age 17 North Korea[18] Tajikistan[19] Timor-Leste[20] Age 18 Afghanistan Albania[21] American Samoa[22] Andorra[23] Antigua and Barbuda[24] Argentina[25][note 2] Angola[26][note 3] Armenia Australia[27] Austria[28] Azerbaijan Bahamas[29] Bangladesh Barbados[30] Belarus[31] Belgium[32] Belize[33] Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina[34] Botswana Brazil [note 4] Brunei Bulgaria Burundi Canada[35] Alberta Manitoba Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan Chile China[36] Colombia Costa Rica Croatia [note 5] Cyprus Czech Republic[37][note 6] Denmark (incl. Faroe Islands and Greenland)[38] Djibouti[39] Dominica Dominican Republic[40] Ecuador Egypt[41] El Salvador[42] Estonia Fiji Finland[43] France[44][note 7] Germany[45] Georgia Ghana Greece[46] Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau[47] Guyana Haiti Hong Kong[48] Hungary Iceland India[49] Iraq[50][note 8] Ireland[51] Israel Italy Jamaica Japan (2022–)[52] Jordan Kazakhstan[53] Kenya[54][55][note 9] Laos Latvia Lebanon Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Malawi[56] Malaysia[57] Malta[58] Mauritania Mauritius Mexico[59] Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Nepal Netherlands[60][note 10] Nigeria Norway[61] Oman[62] Pakistan (male only)[63] Palau[64] Panama Peru Philippines[65] Poland[66] [note 11] Portugal Qatar Romania ("Minimum legal age in Romania") Russia [note 12][67] Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis[68] Seychelles Slovakia Slovenia Somalia South Africa[69][70][note 13] Spain[71][72][note 14] Sri Lanka[73] Sudan[74] Sweden[75] Switzerland[76] Syria Serbia Tanzania Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia[77] Turkey[78] Uganda[79] Ukraine[80] United Kingdom[81] England Wales[82] Northern Ireland[83][84] Crown dependencies Isle of Man[85] Jersey[86] Gibraltar[87] Guernsey[88] United States:[89] all states and territories except for those listed below Uruguay Uzbekistan[90] Vatican City Venezuela Zimbabwe Age 19 Algeria[91] Canada Nova Scotia New Brunswick British Columbia Newfoundland and Labrador Northwest Territories Yukon Nunavut South Korea[92] United States Alabama[93] Nebraska[94] Age 20 Japan (–2022)[52] New Zealand[95] Paraguay Taiwan Thailand Age 21 Bahrain[96] Cameroon[97] Côte d'Ivoire[98] Gabon[99] Grenada[100] Honduras[96] Kuwait[101] Lesotho[96] Madagascar[102] Namibia[96] Samoa Singapore[103] Swaziland[96] United Arab Emirates United States Mississippi[104] Puerto Rico Zambia[56] Religious law Religions have their own rules as to the age of maturity, when a child is regarded to be an adult, at least for ritual purposes: Islam: A person having reached the age of 15 or having entered puberty before that age is considered bulugh (adult). Judaism: 13 years of age for males (Bar Mitzvah) and 12 years of age for females (Bat Mitzvah). Such persons are considered adults.[105] Roman Catholic Church: 18 years of age.[106] See also Age of candidacy Age of consent Age of criminal responsibility Emancipation of minors Legal drinking age Marriageable age Mature minor doctrine Secular coming-of-age ceremony Voting age Youth rights Youth suffrage Youth Notes
Scialabba v. de Osorio
Scialabba v. de Osorio, 573 U.S. ___ (2014), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court found that lawful residents in the United States who turned twenty-one while their visa applications were being processed could not retain their original application date after "aging out" of eligibility for child-visas. Those "aged out" were moved to the bottom of the list of applicants for adult visas. The Ninth Circuit Court had originally agreed that provisions in the Child Status Protection Act allowed applicants to retain their date.