He came here in 2014 and already got permanent status. Is it automatic for Somalis? And he already had completed two years at a community college and got into OSU?
***He came here in 2014 and already got permanent status. Is it automatic for Somalis? And he already had completed two years at a community college and got into OSU?***
It is nearly automatic, apparently. I lived in Cbus for over 25 years, and a job opportunity dictated that we move 3 years ago. The Northland area used to be nice enough, homes built in the 60s and 70s, but it got run down because of competition from the suburbs by the 80s and 90s. It went downhill fast once the mall there closed. The Somalis moved in en masse in the mid 1990s and haven’t stopped coming. Commerce has built back up somewhat.
I was shocked in 2012 to learn that all of these “refugees” were given citizenship rather quickly, because they were bused over to the voting site and I stood next to them all in line at the early voting. So this has been going on for a while. Very depressing that they get the instant shoe in, when there are so many others with degrees just waiting and waiting to get a green card status, usually about a ten year wait.