Kneeled on susp’s head as mob menaced: O’Neill
Q ABy the time of my naturalization swearingin ceremony on July 24, my green card will have expired. Will that be a problem? Hasan, New York
You’ll be fine. Your card expiring before your ceremony won’t impact your right to become a U.S. citizen. To naturalize, permanent residents whose green cards are expiring need a card valid only for six months or more at the time they file their naturalization applications.
Readers who want to apply to naturalize but whose cards will expire in less than six months (or whose cards have already expired) must apply for a new card by filing U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services form I-90, Application to Replace Permanent Resident Card. You can file the form when you file your form N-400, Application for Naturalization. If you are filing by mail, note that you mail the I-90 and N-400 to different addresses.
QI am an English language student studying on an F-1 visa. Can I work to help support myself while studying? I was offered employment as a waitress/counter person at a local restaurant.
Wanda, New York
ATo work while an F-1 student you need permission from your school’s international student adviser. Sometimes, you also need U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services permission. Otherwise, USCIS will consider you to have violated your F-1 status. Your international student adviser
can provide you details, but here’s an overview of F-1 employment opportunities.
F-1studentscanworkontheir school’s campus or at an affiliated off-campus location. Students can work off-campus in an internship program, “Curricular Practical Training.” To get CPT work permission, the work must be a routine requirement for completing your studies.
Students who have competed two semesters (one academic year) of study, may work off-campus in a field related to their studies with Optional Practical Training employment authorization. Graduate students may work under the OPT program during their first year. The law now allows one year’s total OPT for each degree received.
Finally, after two semesters of study, you can work if you can convince USCIS that you have unexpected economic hardship. The NYPD officer caught on video kneeling on a man’s head with his gun drawn in Brooklyn was trying to defend himself after the man threw cash in the air to whip up a crowd and avoid arrest, the city’s top cop said Monday.
NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said the tense scene unfolded while police were trying to make a bust, and the suspect didn’t want to go peacefully.
“This was an arrest they made, or were attempting to make, where an individual decided that as he was being arrested he was going to take whatever cash I assume he had stolen and throw that up into a crowd, creating a chaotic situation,” O’Neill told reporters.
“While that was happening, two other individuals decided that they were not going to let … that person be arrested. There was a physical struggle.”
The video shows a scene Friday on Dean St. near Sixth Ave. in Prospect Heights. In the footage, the plainclothes officer kneels on a man’s head while waving his gun (photo) sideways at bystanders, warning them to “step back” before holstering his weapon.
The man being arrested stays quiet throughout the video, while three more officers wrestle a second man in the background and push him facedown onto the curb.
“If somebody does not want to be arrested, sometimes it doesn’t look pretty,” O’Neill said. “It’s a hard job.”
Police arrested the two men in the video, Carey Cruise, 29, and Edwin Barreto, 26, and issued a summons to Natalie Urrea, 21, for disorderly conduct and harassment.