Iyman Faris, also known as Mohammed Rauf, a Kashmir native who entered the United States in 1994 and became a U.S. citizen in 1999, pleaded guilty on May 1 to "conspiracy to provide material support to the al-Qaeda organization, as well as providing material support to that terrorist group," announced Attorney General John Ashcroft June 19.
Does anybody know how Iyman Faris got his U.S. citizenship in five year? I live and work in US since 1999 and if BCIS will approve my I-485 tomorrow morning I may apply for citizenship only in 2008, but he entered in 1994 and became citizen in 1999. Is it possible?