Expulsion of Grieving Spouses Rule Ended
President Barack Obama recently signed into law a bill that terminates a rule that made newly-married foreigners vulnerable to expulsion if their American spouses died within two years of marriage. The rule also required the expulsion to take place before their application for permanent residence was approved. Commonly known as “the widows’ penalty,” the rule was a piece of a bill that financed operations of the Homeland Security Department for 2010.
President Obama signed the bill on Wednesday. Brent Renison, the lawyer pressing a class action lawsuit for several surviving spouses, has estimated that the widows’ penalty has affected at least two hundred people nationwide.
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