CASE SUCCESS STORY – Restoration of USA CITIZENSHIP
CASE SUCCESS STORY – Restoration of USA CITIZENSHIP
These two clients (brothers) became US citizens upon their birth abroad to their U.S. Citizen father. When he applied for their U.S. passports abroad when they were kids, the family did not have adequate legal counsel and they instead filed for green cards, only obtaining their USA passports after entry to the USA and residency herein.
Fast forward a few decades and the US State Dept. cancelled their passports effectively stripping them of their U.S. citizenship status, claiming their citizenship was “erroneously obtained,” because they never “resided” in the USA as required under that section of law. One of these gentlemen was taken out of line by Interpol at the airport in Switzerland as if he was an international criminal.
After many lawyers told them they had no chance of success because they were not citizens, they came to Hykel Law where we considered all means of relief and looked beyond the cancellation notice citing only one point of law. We got to work and submitted several applications to the U.S. State Dept. and USCIS.
Eventually, one lawyer at the State Dept. called and said he agreed with our arguments and supporting evidence, and in fact, these men were born citizens of the USA.
Today, they obtained their citizenship certificates from USCIS! Congratulations, Demir and Ismail!
We share this story two days after so many Executive Orders were issued – one challenging birth right citizenship enshrined in our U.S. Constitution – to remind everyone that the law is only as strong as those of us who will honor it and fight for it, and that there are good people everywhere, especially in our government, who want to do the right thing and will do the right thing if we give them the support they need.
