I understand the sentiment, and would expect that grace be given to American citizens, but the USA has millions of people applying for visas and citizenship that don't have fraud convictions.
And it's not the cold war any more, collecting chess champions doesn't give quite the same national prestige in 2026 as it did in 1980.
With all due sympathy and wishes that he can continue his career in America, I have to say that a medical fraud billing charge is unfortunately going to make it much harder for him to fight the legal battle.
"In 2014, he and his sister Uchechi Onyekwere were charged in a $13 million medical fraud scheme. ... According to the FBI's report, the operation took place from approximately 2008 through at least the end of 2013."
You cannot naturalize in the US if you are found to have conducted criminal conduct. There are millions of us immigrants and children of immigrants who followed the straight path.
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[ 0.23 ms ] story [ 4.7 ms ] thread“In 2015, Onyekwere, who was already in jail as a pretrial detainee, pleaded guilty.”
No tears shed.
And it's not the cold war any more, collecting chess champions doesn't give quite the same national prestige in 2026 as it did in 1980.
There are so many hustlers and that forces the American system to be so antagonistic for those who do follow the rules.
> CAT Deferral (Deferral of Removal under the Convention Against Torture)
You cannot naturalize in the US if you are found to have conducted criminal conduct. There are millions of us immigrants and children of immigrants who followed the straight path.
If serving time in prison isn't sufficient, what else should he have done?
He has a child who was born in the US. What should be done about that?