If you're an undocumented immigrant and a victim of a crime, you may hesitate to report it for fear of deportation. But you may qualify for a special Visa to stay in the United States if you do report the crime.

It's called a U-visa. And applications for one have surged over the last five years -- to about 26,000 annually in 2014. But Congress set a cap of 10,000 U-visas issued per year, and now thousands sit on a waiting list.

For more on the increase in U-visa applications and the thousands awaiting their approval, Los Angeles Times Reporter Kate Linthicum joined Take Two.