green card widow penalty
News: green card widow penalty
Jun 9th, 2009
DHS recently announced that a green card applicant who is the husband or wife of a deceased US Citizen may be eligible to receive temporary protection from deportation if he or she is widowed before the two year anniversary of the marriage. The announcement comes in response to an Los Angeles immigration judge’s ruling that ordered USCIS to review cases where immigrants whose spouse died before the green...
Apr 28th, 2009
A federal district judge ordered USCIS to reopen the cases of 13 immigrants whose conditional green card applications in Los Angeles were denied because of the “widow penalty.” According to DHS rules, the USCIS must deny an application for a conditional green card if the citizen spouse dies before the green card process is complete, and the marriage is less than two years old. Advocates hope that...
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