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Ex-UI Researcher No Match For US Bureaucracy

Originally posted 11:27 p.m. Friday
Item: Ex-UI researcher faces deportation/Shawn Vestal, SR.

More Info: Katarzyna Dziewanowska grew up in the "gray communist life" of Poland. But it was in America where she found a truly nightmarish experience with a bureaucracy. After nearly 14 years as a researcher at the University of Idaho, Dziewanowska has been denied permanent residency by U.S. immigration officials, who say she worked without authorization for eight months. She did that, she and her attorneys say, on the advice of the UI, and she quit working for a time when the university advised her to do so.

Question: Should the U.S. deport Katarzyna or the Immigration officials who have bungled this case?



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.