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I had my own business and American-born children. I think I thought I was already a citizen.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tUSCIS waited eight years to act on Juan\u2019s green-card application, informing him in 2012 he would have to be interviewed and the interview must take place outside the US. Juan traveled to Ciudad Juarez, just over the border from El Paso, Texas, in 2014.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\t\u201cThey asked me if I\u2019d ever left the US in all my time there and I told them the truth,\u201d he said with a sad shrug. \u201cMy grandmother died 15 years ago, I went to the funeral in Jalisco, and I went back into the US illegally.\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026#13;\n\tBy leaving and re-entering illegally, Juan Luis had closed off any chance of getting legal status. \u201cThey wouldn\u2019t give me the green card. 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