George Jones

The Department of Defense shut down the MAVNI (Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest) program, which fast-tracked immigrant vets with special skills for citizenship, particularly language experts and medical professionals. After a successful nine-year run, the Obam…

Some accuse the Pentagon of using national security as an excuse to shut down MAVNI, as just one among a flotilla of ways to keep foreign-born people out of the military—and the United States. As an Army reservist, Margaret Stock helped develop MAVNI and now represents immigration cases for …

on put an end to …cruits waited, their futures in the military uncertain and a clear path to citizenship now blocked. By late 2017, the Trump administration put an end to all background checks, bringing the program to a complete halt. That means those applicants may more likely become deportees than enlistees.