David Boase, Episcopal priest, fights deporation order
Boase, who is English, mistakenly voted once after a driver’s licensing employee offered him a registration form.
David Boase, 69, a retired Episcopal priest in southern Illinois, received a deportation order to go back to his native England because he voted in a U.S. election. He said he was not aware at the time that only U.S. citizens could participate in federal elections.
That 12-year-old mistake came back to haunt Boase recently when it was discovered by federal authorities reviewing his application for U.S. citizenship. On October 9, the judge at his immigration hearing allowed his lawyer to submit papers by April 23 pursuing cancellation of the deportation order.
“We’re optimistic that David will be allowed to keep his permanent legal residence,” supporters wrote on the Friends United for Fr. David Boase Facebook page.
