The phrase "a special path" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a unique or distinct route, either literally or metaphorically, in various contexts such as travel, personal development, or decision-making.
Example: "She chose a special path in her career that led her to unexpected opportunities."
Alternatives: "a unique route" or "an exclusive way".
There is indeed a special path, it's especially hard, it's eight to 13 years.
The immigrants take their name from the Dream Act, legislation that would open a special path to citizenship for young people here illegally.
In the first step a not too precise controller is designed and the robot is derived along a special path covering the full workspace.
This comprise seems to mollify both sides: Republicans could reassure their base that illegal immigrants would not receive a special path to citizenship, while Democrats are satisfied because the plan would allow for the option of citizenship down the road.
In ruling out a special path to citizenship, Mr. Bush seems to moving closer to a group of House Republicans who have expressed openness to a permanent legal status as a form of compromise.
In the intense activity supporting reform this week, young immigrants who call themselves Dreamers — after legislation known as the Dream Act, which would give them a special path to citizenship — said they were starting a nationwide program of events where they would "come out" to declare their illegal immigration status with their parents and other family members.
Then they would be sent to the back of the line in the existing system to apply to become permanent residents, without any special path to citizenship.
The House speaker, John A. Boehner, ruled out any "special path to citizenship" for undocumented migrants, but seemed to leave open the possibility that they could eventually be naturalized.
One of the Republican positions on immigration reform is that the 11 million people here already should not have any "special path to citizenship" and should instead "go to the back of the line".
A Democrat in the House group, Representative Luis V. Gutierrez of Illinois, wrote last month in The Orange County Register: "It seems that the Republican bottom line when it comes to how to legalize undocumented immigrants in the U.S. is that we do not create a 'new special path to citizenship' for only undocumented immigrants outside the paths we make available to all immigrants".
Actually, it will be a very special path -- in essence, blocked because it will be nearly impossible for such immigrants to ever become citizens.
