Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.

By: James Porter

Over 8 years ago, Abeba arrived in the United States with a visitor’s visa at New York’s JFK Airport, en route to Washington, DC.  She came by herself from Ethiopia leaving behind her family, and everything she knew.  Abeba was granted asylum in 2004 and later received a green card in 2005.  With the help of distant cousins, she began to settle into a community with other Ethiopian nationals in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.  Abeba currently works for CLINIC in the Office of Finance and Operations.  She became a citizen last Friday, July 8^th in Baltimore, Maryland with family, friends, and the extended CLINIC family proudly looking on.