As stated above, a non-citizen juvenile who is lawfully tried and convicted as an adult will generally trigger all immigration consequences flowing from such a conviction. An important exception to this general rule applies to the ground of inadmissibility triggered by crimes of moral turpitude.

A person who has been convicted of committing a crime involving moral turpitude is generally inadmissible.  

A juvenile who was charged and convicted as an adult for a crime of moral turpitude is subject to an exception for youthful offenders so long as the crime was committed when the offender was under the age of 18 and the crime (and any resulting confinement to a prison or correctional facility) was completed more than five years before the date of application for admission to the United States. 

Under the exception, a juvenile who committed the crime of moral turpitude as a minor and more than five years before she applies for admission to the United States will not be considered inadmissible.