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Am I still able to bring and win Hague Convention proceedings to get my abducted child back from Israel, if I am at risk of deportation from the States,where I want him returned, because the child’s mother deliberately told the authorities she had finished her studies there, so that I would lose my status, which was dependent on her student visa there?

Yes ! Courts dealing with Hague Convention cases have declared many times that the status of the parent seeking a return order, and that of the child in the country where he was allegedly living up until the time of the wrongful removal or retention is irrelevant. In December 2010 in case 54043-08-10 Nazareth Family Court ordered the return of a baby ,who had been wrongly retained in Israel by his mother, to the United States even though the applicant father’s status there was at risk after his wife had notified the authorities that she was stopping her studies there, so that her husband’s visa, which was dependent on her student visa, would be at risk, too.