One year has passed since 21 Savage’s controversial arrest by U.S. immigration authorities. For the Atlanta-based rapper, who relocated there from his native UK as a child, the past 12 months have been eventful but shadowed with uncertainty. For allegedly overstaying his visa, he faces deportation and a 10-year ban from returning to America. The case remains open, mired in a nationwide immigration court backlog that could leave him without legal resolution for years. (Charles Kuck, 21’s immigration lawyer, tells Pitchfork there are no new updates to the rapper’s case at the time of this writing.) While he waits in legal purgatory, 21 Savage has been plenty busy: touring, doing features on over a dozen songs, and even winning a Grammy.

Here’s a breakdown of 21 Savage’s case and more during the 12 months since he was shockingly detained.

February 3, 2019

21 Savage is taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In a statement, ICE claims that 21 Savage is a UK national who is “unlawfully present” in the United States. ICE alleges that the rapper entered the United States on a nonimmigrant visa in July 2005, when he was 12, which expired after one year. His predicament makes him one of millions of Dreamers living in the U.S.—the name given to undocumented Americans who first arrived in the country as children.

February 4, 2019

21 Savage’s lawyer Charles Kuck issues a statement saying that the rapper “was left without legal status through no fault of his own.” According to Kuck, the rapper had applied for a U Visa, which is set aside for victims of a crime, and “never hid his immigration status” from officials. Kuck also said immigration authorities were trying to “unnecessarily punish” and “intimidate” 21 into abandoning his bid to stay in the United States.

February 5, 2019

Through representatives, 21 Savage confirms for the first time that he was born in the United Kingdom, but clarifies that he first arrived in the U.S. when he was age 7, not 12. He left for a month in 2015 and came back with a valid visa, he claims.

February 6, 2019

With 21 Savage still in custody, JAY-Z steps in, as news surfaces that he has hired another lawyer, Alex Spiro, to help the incarcerated rapper. Calling the detention “an absolute travesty,” JAY-Z says that Savage, a father of three, “deserves to be reunited with his children immediately.”

February 10, 2019

21 Savage, who is nominated for two Grammys for his role on Post Malone’s “rockstar,” is still detained, and misses the awards show. When Post performs “rockstar” backed by Red Hot Chili Peppers, no one mentions the detained rapper. But Childish Gambino producer Ludwig Göransson shouts out 21 Savage while accepting the award for Record of the Year.

February 13, 2019

After more than a week in ICE detention, 21 Savage is released on bond.

February 15, 2019

21 Savage grants his first post-arrest interview, telling Good Morning America he was “definitely targeted” by ICE officials.

April 9, 2019

This is the originally scheduled date for 21 Savage’s immigration hearing, which is later postponed indefinitely. As of this writing, the rapper still has no hearing on the books.

May 7, 2019

21 announces a North American tour, with opener DaBaby, which will keep him on the road from July 10 to August 16.

October 3, 2019

21 tells the Associated Press that Dreamers like him, who came to the United States when they were children, should automatically receive citizenship. “It’s not like I was 30, woke up and moved over here,” he says. “I didn’t know anything about visas and all that. I just knew we were moving to a new place.”

November 5, 2019

TMZ reports that 21 Savage’s case is being held up by an interminable court backlog. In the meantime, he is reportedly barred from leaving America.

November 20, 2019

Grammy nominations are announced, and 21 has two, Best Rap Album for I Am > I Was and Best Rap Song for “a lot,” with J. Cole.

December 6, 2019

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the federal Immigration Court backlog is now more than one million cases, more than twice the total in 2016. That includes more than 35,00 unresolved cases in Georgia alone. Each case averages almost 700 days to close.

December 27, 2019

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms shares a video of herself and 21 Savage riding around the city together. Part of an AT&T advertising campaign spotlighting Atlanta, the clip shows Bottoms and the rapper finding common ground as they discuss their respective childhood struggles and mutual experiences of the music business (the mayor’s father, Major Lance, had a string of R&B hits in the 1960s).

January 26, 2020

At the Grammys, 21 Savage and J. Cole win Best Rap Song for “a lot.” The song’s video had premiered just days before 21’s arrest almost one year earlier.