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Immigrant widowed in NY ferry crash gets US residency
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-12-23 11:31
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NEW YORK: A Jamaican woman whose American husband died in a ferry crash has been granted permanent residency after years of fighting to stay in the United States.
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President Barack Obama signed a law in October overturning a rule known as the "widow's penalty" that made foreigners subject to expulsion if their American spouses died within two years of marriage and before their applications for permanent residency had been approved.
Renison says the government is finalizing details of a class action settlement affecting hundreds of others.
