TACOMA, Wash. (AP) -- Pvt. Stepan Provorov withstands attacks by insurgents in Iraq who shoot at him and send mortars dangerously close to his Stryker vehicle, but it is his fight for U.S. citizenship that weighs heavily on his mind.
The Fort Lewis soldier joined the Army last year and applied for his citizenship so he could bring his wife and children from Russia.
The process has been slow, despite letters and visits to immigration offices by his commanders in Baghdad.
"We're getting to the point where we have exhausted every resource and it's frustrating," said Lt. Craig Coppock of DuPont, Provorov's platoon leader in Baghdad. "All there needs to be is for someone to say OK. No one can tell us why that can't happen."
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