In September 1991. Mrs. Gorgiladze came to the United States to stay with her lifelong friend. Merilyn Hodgson. Three months later the Soviet Union was dissolved and civil and ethnic war broke out in Georgia. the Soviet Republic where Mrs. Gorgiladzes husband was from. She applied for asylum in this country in March 1992. INS and the Executive Office of Immigration Review finally got to her case in late 1995 and turned down her request. They instructed Mrs. Gorgiladze to obtain Georgian citizenship and to leave for that country. The irony. of course. is that Olga Gorgiladze is not now and never has been a Georgian citizen.
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