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Seventeen Years Since The Sunset: The Expiration Of 245(I) And Its Effect On U.S. Citizens Married To Undocumented Immigrants, Marisa Cianciarulo
Seventeen Years Since The Sunset: The Expiration Of 245(I) And Its Effect On U.S. Citizens Married To Undocumented Immigrants, Marisa Cianciarulo
Marisa S. Cianciarulo
One of the most pervasive myths of U.S. immigration law is that marriage to a U.S. citizen confers citizenship, or at least some form of legal status, upon a foreign national. It is an intuitive notion: that a U.S. citizen enjoys, as part of his or her package of privileges and protections, the right to live anywhere in the United States with a spouse of his or her choosing, and to confer automatically some form of legal status upon that spouse. It comes as a surprise and an affront to many U.S. citizens that their immigration laws do not always …