How Close Was Tamerlan Tsarnaev To Becoming A US Citizen?

Feb 29, 2016, 20:29

The revelations were made in hundreds of heavily redacted Department of Homeland Security documents provided to The Boston Globe (http://bit.ly/1Thq1bR ).

The USCIS defended the way the two immigration cases were handled, saying it "found no errors" in the processing of the two cases.

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Months before the bombings, Tamerlan swore his allegiance to the United States and denied any links to terrorism, according to the report, as part of his path toward citizenship.

The records also show his friend Ibragim Todashev, who was killed by an Federal Bureau of Investigation agent during an interrogation in Florida related to three 2011 murders and his connection to Tsarvaev, had applied for a green card twice after receiving asylum in 2008. Shortly after the bombings, a top immigration official sent the Boston immigration office a memo titled "withholding of adjudication", but the reason for the memo is unclear because the record is redacted.

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The files did not show any concerns from federal officials about Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Producers of a Mark Wahlberg movie about the deadly Boston Marathon bombing won't be recreating the police shootout with the Tsarnaev brothers in the neighborhood where it happened. He had also disclosed a 2009 arrest for assaulting a former girlfriend, and that he was receiving government benefits and had recently traveled overseas. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev became a US citizen on September 11, 2012.

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Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a 26-year-old ethnic Chechen who had immigrated to the United States from Russian Federation a decade before the attack, had correctly answered questions about American history and demonstrated proficiency in the English.