Nadeem Hassan

Nadeem Hassan (born circa 1965) is a Pakistani gastroenterologist who was a legal resident of the United States until he was stripped of his green card due to alleged ties to terrorism.
Hassan is notable for the controversy stirred by the process through which he was stripped of residency.
Life in the United States
Hassan lived in the USA from 1987 through 2005. He lived in Tempe, Arizona, and worked at the Maricopa Medical Center.
Hassan's residency status
In 2002, after fulfilling required preporatory steps, he started the process of applying for U.S. citizenship.<ref name=ArizonaCentral20060104/>
Eric Bjotvedt, Hassan's immigration lawyer, said Hassan had obtained “advance parole” -- permission to leave the USA, and count on re-admission, prior to his departure.
Hassan and his wife's travels were in order to participate in the Hajj, a religious pilgrimage required of all Muslims,
However, on January 13, 2006, while Hassan was overseas, the Customs and Immigration Service retracted his advance parole, based on a six-month-old FBI affidavit. The affidavit, drafted by FBI agent Jill Tikalsky, described the Jamaat Tablighi movement as:
The affidavit asserted that Hassan had withheld important information about his membership in Muslim organizations, that his phone number had been found on the address book of two men detained when crossing the US-Canadian border in 2003.

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