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Archive Home > 2009 > June > 24 > Widowed before she got a green card

Widowed before she got a green card

A Balkan migrant’s American husband died in Iraq — and she has gone to D.C. to fight deportation

By Gary Martin / The Bulletin
June 24, 2009

WASHINGTON — When Todd Engstrom died in Iraq, his newlywed, Diana, faced overwhelming grief with an added absurdity. The U.S. government wanted to deport her to Kosovo.

A former U.N. translator from the Balkans, Diana lived in Illinois and had been married only nine months before....

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