Breach of promise is alive and well and living in the U.S. State Department.
Recently, the State Department informed 22,000 lucky winners that they had been randomly selected to receive the object of their desire----a green card.
Permanent residency in the United States. Free to work, to travel, and not worry about deportation back to the old country where work is scarce.
It wasn't long before the State Department notified the lucky few that it was all a misunderstanding, a computer glitch. They weren't getting those green cards after all.
Legal firm White and Associates is representing the jilted party, pro bono. Partner Kenneth Wright believes that the good name of the U.S. Government is on the line in this case. Having made a promise, the State Department should be forced to keep it.
Unless the State Department reverses itself yet again, it will be up to a judge to decide how sincere and binding the original offer was.
Can the U.S. be dragged to the altar and forced to issue those green cards, or will a cash settlement to ease the broken hearts of 22,000 would-be permanent resident aliens be the final outcome?
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