G.A.G.E. coach Vardan Sargsyan has been ordered to leave the country for his native Armenia.
It’s easy to be “tough on illegal immigrants”, … until it’s your gymnastics coach.
… Sargsyan, a gymnastic coach at Great American Gymnastic Express (GAGE) in Blue Springs, has been denied citizenship three times by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services officials in California.
Sargsyan has been in the United States since 2003 and came to the area in 2005 to work with GAGE owner Al Fong and Fong’s Armenian-born wife, Armine Barutyan-Fong, a former gymnastics trainer partner of Sargsyan in their home country. …
Vardan must wait one year before he can apply to return.
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