CaribWorldNews, NEW YORK, NY, Weds. Dec. 23, 2009: A Jamaican widow who has been fighting for residency in the U.S. since 2003, has finally been given her green card.
The early Christmas gift was granted to Osserritta Robinson on Tuesday, years after her husband died in the 2003 Staten Island ferry crash.
The approval came just weeks after President Barack Obama signed a law in October overturning 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.
Robinson had taken her case to the U.S. Supreme Court but given the result of her application, she will now drop the case, her attorney said.
Hundreds of other spouses, like Robinson, have been affected by the rule before it was overturned this year.
