A citizen of Yemen, included in the restrictive list of countries will still be able to see his son before his death.
The US state Department gave permission for entry into the United States Same, Swaleh mother of a two-year Abdullah Hassan, who suffers from an incurable genetic disease of the brain and is on life support in Auckland hospital.
This news comes shortly after the boy’s father, a US citizen Ali Hassan, was approached by CNN to the immigration authorities asking them to let his wife into the country to say good-bye. Although representatives of the state Department shrugged, claiming that they can’t speed up the process of issuing the visa the next day after the publication for Svilen lifted the ban on entry.
According to Basim of Elkarra, Executive Director of the division of the state Department, a woman living in Egypt, in the shortest time will go to San Francisco. At best its flight with all the changes is just over 20 hours. Swaleh will go to the USA on a visa I-130, which allows entry to close relatives of American citizens.
GOOD NEWS: Shaima Swileh has been granted a waiver to come see her son, Abdullah in his final days.https://t.co/slcYWUc5P4 pic.twitter.com/Vorlw9obsE
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«Unfortunately, despite the victory, it’s still a loss, but at least she’s coming and will be able to properly mourn and to see how her son is buried, said Elkarra. We can only hope that she will be back in time and sees her son in his last hours».
A few hours before the information came out about the visa for the mother of Abdullah, his father appealed to the President of the Trump.
«All families should be together. Right now, due to the situation in which my son is, he faces death. I worry about the loss of her son. It’s very hard for me and for my mother, for my family and also for my wife,» said Ali Hassan and asked the President to help them in this situation.
RELIEF AS the US State Department grants Shaima Swileh, a Yemeni mother whose son is in an Oakland hospital on life support, a waiver to travel to the US, Swileh will get on the earliest available flight out of Egypt. She had been barred from her dying son #CofekCaresForYou pic.twitter.com/lm2PcIqLk0
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According to the man, his wife crying every day, and during telephone conversations says she most wants to kiss the son, «before he leaves».
