Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

Reporting from a new generation of journalists. A News21 blog.

Reporting from a new generation of journalists. header image 2

U.S. Citizens’ Foreign Widows Denied Residency

November 25th, 2008 by Amy Crawford · No Comments

Both sides of the immigration debate have called for a reform of our legal immigration process, which can be Byzantine and choked with red tape, and which often seems unfair. Here’s an illustrative example.

CBS News’ 60 Minutes took a look at the plight of immigrant widows, whose marriages to U.S. citizens were not vetted by immigration authorities before their husbands died. According to 60 Minutes, the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services is ordering hundreds of widows and widowers to leave the country because their spouses died before their official immigration interviews.

Tags: · , , , , ,

0 responses so far ↓

  • There are no comments yet...Kick things off by filling out the form below.

Leave a Comment