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The part I'm struggling with is... if she married a U.S. citizen, shouldn't that have allowed her to stay?? But, on the flip side, if she didn't gain the visa needed to stay in the first place, she screwed herself.
I know the department of imigration is really cracking down on these type of cases, where either a visa extention wasn't filed or citizenship was never gained. There have been two cases like this in NW Ohio in the last 6 months. The first was a case against 2 parents from Korea who never filed for citizenship before their visa expired and were deported. The second was an 18 year old H.S. senior from germany that was in the country for the last 12 years, his grandparent never did the correct paperwork when he needed to.
Those cases, just as the one from the article, show how long it takes for the immigration department to catch up with you, but they will. No it isn't fair, but the law is the law, and it's there for a reason.
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