“They are going to take away your residency in the United States if you continue traveling to Cuba.” This is not the first time that a Cuban resident in Miami, United States, has received warnings from American government officials for requesting asylum under the Cuban Adjustment Act and then constantly traveling to the island.
A Cuban resident in the United States for almost 18 years received a warning from an Immigration officer upon returning from a trip to the island with his wife and children at the end of January. The officer recommended that he not return to Cuba, alleging that a process of revoking residency for Cubans residing abroad would soon begin.
“He told him that they were going to start removing residences, that maybe it wasn’t today or tomorrow, but that they were going to remove residences because how are you going to leave a country saying that you are fleeing and you are going to return to it,” Javier Díaz, the wife of the Cuban warned at the Miami airport, told journalist.
Warnings to Cubans from Miami for trips to Cuba: they would lose residency
The woman added that “they checked our passports, they sent my husband to enter the ‘immigration room’, they checked his passport, they let him go and when we were reaching the exit door, another officer asked him for his passport, which “She checked again and asked him if he had entered through the border, but he said by boat.”
Although the man mentioned to the officer that he had taken advantage of the Cuban Adjustment Act and had been residing in the United States for almost 18 years, with a permanent Green Card, the officer insisted on advising him against future trips to the island.
The officer even mentioned that even if he obtained US citizenship, it could be revoked in case of fraud. It should be noted that the family in question has made an average of eight or nine trips to Cuba in the last six years.
Previously, a Miami lawyer had also warned Cubans residing in the United States of this.
Lawyer José Guerrero, pointed out on Univisión 23, that “it is important to keep in mind that these people may be questioned upon returning to the United States or have problems with citizenship, the same for people who applied for asylum, won their case and are returning to the island. This could have problems again when entering.”
#residency