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Iranian immigration began around 40 years ago in 1979, the start of the Islamic revolution, and as a result the United states has become home to a huge population of Iranian immigrants. The first wave of Iranian immigration came in the 1950’s and was mostly students seeking a better education to keep up with the rapidly growing Iranian economy. In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s the number of Iranian immigrants increased. Although as immigration policies change it is harder for iranians to immigrate to the United States.

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Sources from: Shirin Hakimzadeh and David Dixon in Immigration Research and Information

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Iranian Immigration lawyer helps those who are trying to Immigrate to America 

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Iranian Immigration lawyer helps those who are trying to Immigrate to America 

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Dr. Towfig Arjmand is a retired anesthesiologist, who emigrated from Kermanshah, Iran, where he was born. He spent his childhood in Iran, his mother was a housewife, and his father had a position as a british counselor because he spoke english well, as he had learned it in primary school. He had 5 siblings, three brothers and two sisters, but both of his sisters past away in the early 2000’s. They all lived very scattered in the United States, after emigrating from Iran, including California, Illinois, and one of his sisters lived in Toronto, Canada. He attended grades K-12 in Iran at a private elite school in Kermanshah. During this time Iran was on a large trade route, to get arms to the Soviet Union during the holocaust, but he lived a very protected life in because his school and his parents social and economic standing. He moved to the US on a student visa in 1957 to further his medical education. In 1961 he completed his residency at St. Johns Hospital in Springfield, Illinois, and seven years later he became a US citizen. Arjmand's immigration to the US was not hard because he came here on a student visa and then applied for a citizenship. Since he had a steady job, income, and a good education it was an easier process for him to become a citizen.
(Multimedia/Illinois.gov)
(Written Interview)

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Executive Order 13769- Issued on January 27, 2017, Donald Trump signed the executive order to ban all travel from 7 muslim majority countries for 120 days. Anyone arriving from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen received a 90 day suspension of their visa.
(BBC)

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(Written Interview)- “Arjmand Towfig/Immigrant Stories.” Illinois.gov, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, 2010, www.illinois.gov/alplm/library/collections/oralhistory/ImmigrantStories/Pages/ArjmandTowfig.aspx. Accessed 7 Mar. 2018.

(Multimedia/Illinios.gov)- Crow, Susan. “Arjmand Towfig/Immigrant Stories.” Illinois.gov, 2010, Arjmand Towfig/Immigrant Stories. Accessed 7 Mar. 2018.

Carter, Jimmy. “Sanctions Against Iran Remarks Announcing U.S. Actions.” Www.presidency.ucsb, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=33233%20.

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Travel Ban:
“Trump's Executive Order: Who Does Travel Ban Affect?” BBC News, BBC, 10 Feb. 2017, www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38781302.

Timeline:

Shirin Hakimzadeh and David Dixon. Immigration Research and Information. www.immigrationresearch-info.org/report/migration-policy-institute/iranian-immigrants-united-states.

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