In 1989 they released me to a halfway house from which they paroled me in 1990. Back in 1988, while in prison, an INS officer interviewed me and said that I wasn't deportable. If you apply for citizenship, the INS may try to deport you. It appears you were convicted of an aggravated felony. The law may provide you fewer defenses to deportation than existed in 1988.
Many lawyers disagree and are asking the federal courts to reverse INS policy.
So, you may be deportable, but if you can beat the deportation case, you can become a U.S. citizen. Let an immigration law expert sort this out for you. Meanwhile, travel is out, unless you want to end up in INS detention. Q. I came to the United States to marry my pen-friend. Unfortunately, I understand that she can't file for a green card for me because she's getting welfare.