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US immigration notice sent to the wrong address- detainee dies from untreated spinal cancer
US immigration notice sent to the wrong address- detainee dies from untreated spinal cancer
And last Wednesday, two days after his 34th birthday, he died in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a Rhode Island hospital, his spine fractured and his body riddled with cancer that had gone undiagnosed and untreated for months. picked by murfanda 3 months ago
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 topofall
3 months ago
How awful, what a set of circumstances stemming from a bureaucratic mistake!
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3 months ago
« topofall : How awful, what a set of circumstances stemming from a bureaucratic mistake!
All we have had for the last eight years seem to have been bureaucratic mistakes :(
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Straight away he should've been given the green card. I'm not an American citizen, I've never been to the US but the decision should've been an easy one. He was married to an American and was a father to two American children.

As I'm not in the US I have read up on the immigration process in case an opportunity presents itself in the future and according to the system, he should've automatically been given a green card:

"An exception exists for immediate relatives of U.S. citizens, which includes parents, spouses and unmarried children under the age of 21, who do not have to wait for an immigrant visa number to become available once the immigrant visa petition filed for them is approved. An immigrant visa number will be immediately available for immediate relatives of U.S. citizens."

Also:

"Spouses of legal permanent residents, and the unmarried sons and daughters (regardless of age) of legal permanent residents and their children."

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