Lem can stay in U.S.
NZPA-Reuter New York
The long-term population of the United States was increased by one 35-year-old former Beatle on Tuesdav as the Government gave up trying to deport John Lennon and granted him permanent resident status. Lennon was handed a green, laminated “permanent resident alien” card after a hearing before Judge Ira Fieldsteel had ended the singer’s fiveyear struggle to avoid deportation because of a 1968 hashish-possession conviction in Great Britain.
“I have a love for this country,” Lennon said. “If it had been 2000 years ago, we all would’ve wanted to live in Rome. This is Rome, and I don’t want to live in the hills. This is where the action is.”
Lennon must wait five years before becoming eligible to apply for United States citizenship. “I’ll have to think about that,” he said. “I can’t think ot what I’ll be doing in five years.”
Lennon’s case began in 1971 when he applied for permanent resident status but was ordered deported as “undesirable” by Judge Fieldsteel on the basis of a hashish conviction. That decision was overturned last year by the Federal Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which ordered a new hearing.
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