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Citizenship for Timur Thomas Nesbitt

Citizenship for Timur Thomas Nesbitt

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Started by Anonymous 17 years, 4 months ago
Honorable Senator Grassley, Please write a special bill to grant US citizenship to Timur Thomas Nesbitt. He is the adopted son of Iowans Harold and Julie Nesbitt and has no other family anywhere in the world. Harold and Julie do not intend to stay in Kazakhstan forever, and when they leave, Timur will be left alone. Please don't separate our family! Born in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on October 6, 1985, Timur grew up in an orphanage. When he was twelve years old, he met the Nesbitts, who came to his orphanage to do humanitarian work. Two years later Timur moved in with the Nesbitts and their four children and the Nesbitts started petitioning to adopt him. However, the adoption was not completed until after Timur turned 16 and was no longer eligible for US citizenship under current adoption laws. Timur visited the US as a tourist with his parents when he was 16 and again when he was 19. Timur is now in Des Moines studying marketing at DMACC on a student visa. The Nesbitt family has only met with dead ends in their quest to find another legal route to obtain citizenship for Timur. When Timur finishes his studies, he will be forced to return to Kazakhstan where he has no family, no home, no one. Although the Nesbitts live in Kazakhstan right now, they are unsure how much longer they will remain. Please help this family stay together. Please write a special bill granting citizenship to Timur Thomas Nesbitt.

Updates

March 13, 2009

Senator Grassley is still ignoring our pleas while the clock ticks for Timur. My family refuses to accept that a bureaucratic technicality is enough to exile our son to a country where he has nobody. We are escalating our outreach to his office immediately because silence is not an option.

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Sarah Yang
17 years ago Featured

This is just wrong. He is their son. Families belong together no matter what the paperwork says.

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Karen Choi
17 years ago Featured

THEY ARE HIS FAMILY. PERIOD. STOP TEARING THEM APART!!!

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Mike Nguyen
17 years ago Featured

What a bunch of bureaucratic nonsense. Let him stay with his parents!

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Linda Fox
17 years ago Featured

Poor kid has been through enough already. Iowa is his home.

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Tom Morrison
17 years ago Featured

I grew up in Des Moines and we take care of our own. Timur is one of us.

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Dave Kapoor
17 years ago Featured

Common sense needs to prevail here. He is a good kid going to school and trying to make a life. Do the right thing.

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