An Illegal Alien Soap Opera — with a Twist
By David North on May 26, 2021
So many immigration reports in the media begin with an appealing human interest story, often along these (imaginary) lines:
When Kathryn A. isn’t breast-feeding her twin daughters, one of whom she believes to be autistic, she is working as a volunteer at the local food bank, and getting ready for an eventful June, in which the paperless immigrant from Mexico will receive both a PhD in Nuclear Engineering, summa cum laude, and a JD degree, magna cum laude, from Big State University. She worries that her equally paperless lover will be tossed out of the country because of a minor brush with the law.
You get the idea.
As a minor counter to such stories, we bring you an illegal alien soap opera as extracted from the color-‘em-grey files of the Administrative Appeals Office (AAO), a quasi-judicial arm of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Every bit of it is factual.
Our central figure in this case, the petitioner, is an alien from Kenya who is here illegally after arriving 18 years ago on an F-1 visa. She sought adjustment to legal status as an “abused wife” of R-H-, a U.S. citizen. As the long story unfolds in the decision, we learn:
https://cis.org/North/Illegal-Alien-Soap-Opera-Twist
