All Intensive Purposes

The widow of a man who drowned while trying to rescue two boys off San Francisco's Ocean Beach on Sunday afternoon now faces a second sorrow: She may be deported to Kenya because her husband died before the couple had a chance to apply for her U.S. residency. . . .

Four days before he died, Coats had signed immigration papers stating that he had married his girlfriend of two years, 26-year-old Jacqueline Muhoro, on April 17 and was seeking permanent residency for her.

But the application is incomplete and now can't be finished, putting Jacqueline Coats at risk of being deported, said her attorney, Thip Ark of San Francisco.

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