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A Canadian-born pastor has been granted US citizenship despite having been convicted of possession of over an ounce of marijuana when he was 18 years old. Steven Mullenix came to the US in 1995 on a religious worker visa and worked at the Assemblies of God church in Rochester, New York. As the son of a US citizen who moved to Canada at age 14, he sought citizenship. However, the 1996 immigration law made his conviction a basis for permanent exclusion from the US. He sued to try to change this law, but now that he has citizenship has dropped the suit. He plans to get a degree in theology and work as a prison chaplain. As part of the INS Direct Mail program, which is designed to centralize naturalization application processing at the four regional Service Centers instead of local offices, the INS will now only be accepting naturalization applications from people serving in the military who are applying for naturalization based on their military service.  |
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