Marine’s widow hits U.S. visa snag

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Marine’s widow hits U.S. visa snag
By David Allen, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, September 27, 2008

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The phone call devastated Robin Ferschke, the mother of a Marine killed in Iraq.

Her Okinawan daughter-in-law, six months pregnant with the couple’s child, tearfully called earlier this week and said she was having problems getting a residency visa to live in the United States.

"She was crying so hard, it was hard to understand what she was saying," Robin said in a telephone interview Thursday from her home in Maryville, Tenn. "She said she was told she could not get a visa because of something called the two-year rule."

Because of problems with fraudulent marriages, in 1986 Congress revised the rules for immigration through marriage, requiring foreigners to be married to U.S. citizens for at least two years before they can receive a residency visa.

The rule’s goal was to ensure that the marriages are performed in good faith and not for immigration purposes.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=57683

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1. Sad world sometimes

isn't it.