Federal Immigration Judge Grants Asylum to Woman Adopted from Iran
A federal immigration judge granted asylum to a woman adopted from Iran in the 1970s after immigration officials threatened her with deportation to a country with which the U.S. is now at war.
A federal immigration judge has granted asylum to a woman who was adopted from Iran in the 1970s. Immigration officials had threatened her with deportation to Iran, the country with which the U.S. is now at war. The woman was adopted as a toddler by a WWII Air Force veteran who found her in an Iranian orphanage in the 1970s and raised her as a Christian. She was one of thousands adopted from abroad who were never granted citizenship because of bureaucratic loopholes between adoption and immigration law. Judge Andrew Fishkin’s ruling ended a prolonged legal struggle for the California woman.
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