Ostracized Swiss Guard Moves to U.S.

Christoph Meili, the former Swiss bank guard who saved Holocaust-era documents from the shredder, signed the forms that made him a permanent resident of the United States. Meili, his wife, Guiseppina, and their two young children, Miriam and David, were accompanied to an Immigration and Naturalization Service ceremony in New York by two survivors of the Holocaust who are among thousands suing Swiss banks for wartime assets. Meili, 29, exposed Switzerland’s biggest bank, the Union Bank of Switzerland, in January when he disclosed the shredding of records. He lost his job, received death threats and may be charged for breaking Switzerland’s bank-secrecy laws.