… for the Olympic Games, where citizenship is key, immigration law can be of the utmost importance. Just ask Ben Agosto and Tanith Belbin, the US ice dancing pair that won the silver medal. One of the first thank yous they delivered was to their lawyers.
Without that legal team … Agosto and Belbin would have been forced to sit out their second Olympic competition in four years. Belbin, a native of Canada, had a citizenship problem … she faced a five-year residency requirement, which meant she wasn’t eligible for citizenship until 2007. She and Agosto needed a miracle by Dec. 31, 2005, to make the U.S. Olympic team. …