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: Greg Siskind's Blog60 MINUTES TO RUN STORY ON WIDOW PENALTY
By Greg Siskind
CBS' 60 Minutes is running a story on a little known, but very serious problem in US immigration law:
FOR BETTER OR WORSE - Foreigners who marry Americans are entitled to become permanent residents of the U.S., but in a stricter post-9/11 world, hundreds of widows are being asked to leave the country because their husbands died - even some whose children were born in the U.S. Bob Simon reports. Robert Anderson is the producer.
Some of you may remember my writing about this in posts here and here.
Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on November 21, 2008 (boomark / email).
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