A local woman who immigrated from Ecuador will appeal to a state court for her citizenship instead of attending a previously scheduled appointment with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Immigration attorney Farhad Sethna, who represents Rosa Saltos and her three American children, said Tuesday that ICE has granted his client a two-week extension to make her case for citizenship before a judge in the Ninth District Court of Appeals.
The ICE meeting had been scheduled for Tuesday.
Saltos came to America in 1998 to find better health care for her son, Holger, who has Down syndrome.
She pleaded guilty to a felony charge of possessing false documents in 2004 after she said she obtained a Social Security card to open a business with her ex-husband. Unable to speak English then, she said she thought the documents were real.
Saltos has since made routine visits to ICE to maintain her legal status. Her oldest son, now 21, has sponsored her green card application.
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