Green card status major focus of Presidential Race
Too bad I haven't followed the ridiculousness that is the Taiwan presidential election more closely. Today's Taipei Times has a funny article about the great debate over Ma Yingjiu's (馬英九) green card status.
Ma has admitted to having a green card during his time as a student in the US, but said it was automatically invalidated in 1985 when he applied for a visa to travel to the US. Hsieh maintains that Ma's green card is still valid, arguing that the KMT presidential candidate has not completed an I-407 form to relinquish his permanent residency or had the green card invalidated by a US immigration court.If he can prove that his green card has been invalidated, the current president of the Republic of China, Chen Shuibian has threatened to resign. That's just silly. Don't they have real issues to attack each other on, rather than technicalities of the laws of a different country? I guess the US is equally silly, but Taiwanese elections just seem absurd to me... Full story :Taipei Times - archives