Career
Hassan is notable for the controversy stirred by the process through which he was stripped of residency. Hassan lived in the United States of America from 1987 through 2005. He lived in Tempe, Arizona, and worked at the Maricopa Medical Center.
In 2002, after fulfilling required preporatory steps, he started the process of applying for United States. citizenship.
Eric Bjotvedt, Hassan"s immigration lawyer, said Hassan had obtained “advance parole” -- permission to leave the United States of America, and count on re-admission, prior to his departure. However, on January 13, 2006, while Hassan was overseas, the Customs and Immigration Service retracted his advance parole, based on a six-month-old Federal Bureau of Investigation affidavit.
The affidavit, drafted by Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Jill Tikalsky, described the Jamaat Tablighi movement as:
“..vulnerable to being used by Islamic extremists as a cover to recruit members to engage in acts of terrorism against the United States.. the Federal Bureau of Investigation is unable to rule out the possibility that Hassan poses a threat to national security”.
