Judge grants asylum to woman adopted by a US veteran from Iran after deportation threats
The ruling gives Ms. S a path to U.S. citizenship after officials said she could be deported for a decades-old visa overstay.
- Judge Andrew Fishkin granted refugee status to a California woman on Monday, halting deportation proceedings initiated by the Department of Homeland Security earlier this year and providing a pathway to American citizenship.
- Adopted from Iran in 1973 by a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, the woman was raised in Wisconsin but never naturalized due to a bureaucratic oversight between adoption and immigration law.
- The Department of Homeland Security ordered her to appear for removal proceedings in February, subjecting the 56-year-old to fingerprinting, DNA collection, and an ankle monitor during the ordeal.
- Fishkin acknowledged that records from the Embassy in Tehran were likely lost during the 1979 seizure, explaining the documentation gap; the administration retains the right to appeal his decision.
- Thousands of international adoptees remain in legal limbo because their American parents failed to naturalize them under previous adoption laws, a challenge this case highlights for vulnerable immigrant communities.
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Los Angeles – adopted as a child by a US veteran, she has been living in America for 52 years. Nevertheless, the Christian (56) should be deported to Iran.
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Judge grants asylum to woman adopted by a US veteran from Iran after deportation threats
A federal immigration judge has granted asylum to a woman orphaned in Iran in the 1970s and adopted by an American war veteran, who immigration officials threatened earlier this year with deportation to the country with which the U.S. is now at war.
Federal Immigration Judge Grants Asylum to Woman Adopted by a U.S. Veteran From Iran in the 1970s
A federal immigration judge has granted asylum to a woman orphaned in Iran in the 1970s and adopted by an American war veteran, who immigration officials threatened earlier this year with deportation to the country with which the U.S. is now at war. Judge Andrew Fishkin’s ruling likely ends a monthslong ordeal for the California woman, one of thousands adopted from abroad who were never granted citizenship because of bureaucratic loopholes betwe…
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