Missing GI's Wife Won't Be Deported [View All]

Source: Associated Press

Missing GI's Wife Won't Be Deported

Thursday June 21, 2007 5:16 AM

BOSTON (AP) - The wife of a soldier missing in Iraq no longer
faces deportation, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security
spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Army Spec. Alex Jimenez, who has been missing since his unit
was attacked by insurgents in Iraq on May 12, had petitioned
for a green card for his wife, Yaderlin, whom he married in 2004,
Boston's WBZ-TV reported.

Their attorney, Matthew Kolken, said Yaderlin illegally entered the
United States from the Dominican Republic in 2001. Her husband's
request for a green card and legal residence status for her alerted
authorities to her situation, Kolken said.

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The deportation case was closed in May 2006, and there are no
plans to reopen it, said Jamie Zuieback, a DHS spokeswoman.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6724825,00.html

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Earlier LBN thread: Missing Soldier Wife ( says she may be deported as an illegal alien)