Did Meriam Al-Khalifa become a US citizen? ·
Meriam bint Abdullah Al-Khalifa, is a Bahraini royal family member, she was born in 1980. She became popular, for leaving Bahrain and her family to elope to US, with a US Marine Lance Corporal, known as Jason Johnson, who was serving in Bahrain at the time as a member of a counter terrorism squad that guarded American expatriates. She was allowed to stay and apply for asylum after being smuggled into the country with the assistance of Lance Corporal Johnson and facing deportation threats from US Customs. She claimed that she feared honor violence by her family as retaliation for leaving her country and having a romantic relationship with a non-Muslim. Her story got extensive coverage in the American media, which includes The Oprah Winfrey Show, and was later turned to a movie.
Did Meriam Al-Khalifa become a US citizen?
Meriam Al-Khalifa applied for asylum in the United States, and was granted legal permanent residency. However, she received immigrant status from the Immigration and Naturalization Service as a result of her marriage to a citizen of the United States.
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