Some immigrants celebrate Biden’s extension of legal status while others left out

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants married to US nationals can now exit the shadows' while others remain stuck in limbo

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants had reason to rejoice when Joe Biden unveiled a highly expansive plan to extend legal status to spouses of US citizens but, inevitably, some were left out.

Claudia Zuniga, 35, was married in 2017, 10 years after her husband came to the United States. He moved to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, after they wed, knowing that, by law, he had to live outside the US for years to gain legal status. Our lives took a 180-degree turn," she said.