The road to citizenship for veterans and their families

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- As immoderate veterans and household members of veterans look deportation amid ongoing migration enforcement operations, Action News looked into the pathway to citizenship for subject members and veterans.

Last weekend, successful Orange County, Narciso Barranco was forcibly detained by Border Patrol.

His lad is simply a Marine veteran.

Video shows agents hitting Barranco repeatedly.

Homeland Security claims Barranco deed the agents with a weed wacker. His lad refutes that.

And this week, Sae, Joon Park, a decorated Army Veteran surviving successful Hawaii, self-deported to South Korea.

In 2009, helium was convicted connected cause charges and served clip successful prison.

After his release, Park's greenish paper was revoked. This month, migration officials told him to permission oregon beryllium deported.

Action News talked to an migration lawyer astir the pathway to citizenship for veterans and their families.

"There are programs for radical that are veterans and progressive work subject members, they person that enactment for themselves but besides for their relatives, for their spouses," said Sully Bryan, an migration lawyer with the instrumentality steadfast Wilner & O'Reilly.

Active Duty subject members and veterans bash qualify for citizenship and they tin assistance their relatives and spouses summation citizenship.

"Generally speaking, if you've been successful the United States for much than a year, you person to permission and either inquire forgiveness oregon enactment retired of the state for 10 years," said Bryan.

"Asking forgiveness," arsenic Byran puts it, means applying for a waiver called 'parole successful place.'

That means a qualifying nonmigratory needs to sponsor you.

"People inactive person to qualify. So 1 happening astir parole successful spot is it's discretionary. The authorities tin accidental no," said Bryan.

In the lawsuit of Barranco, his lad says helium is undocumented and has been surviving successful the U.S. since the 1990s but has nary transgression record.

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