More than a year ago we learned about Jesús, a young Cuban with a critical health situation whose only hope is to receive treatment in the United States. After much effort and requesting help, his mother obtained support for a humanitarian visa, but things did not go as she expected.
Maria Caridad Pérez, the mother who requested a humanitarian visa for her son, says that “everything was proven: sponsors, affidavit, a doctor sent letters,” which is why she says she does not understand why USCIS denied the request for travel authorization for humanitarian reasons. for your son.
Jesús Lorenzo, who is 21 years old, shows obvious physical deterioration and serious deformation of the spine. The young man resides in the municipality of Aguada de Pasajeros, in the province of Cienfuegos.
His mother says that “Jesus lacks medications, gastric tubes; of a spinal corrective chair that is not manufactured in Cuba because he has a spine that will break if he continues to be bedridden. Jesús needs medicines for “Lennox-Gastaut” syndrome in epilepsy that they cannot give him here because they say they don’t have them. He is a child who has not had the right to live in a country where he has been denied resources for 21 years.”
In June 2022, the woman said: “I live day and night so that my son can have the best quality of life.” And after much searching, Maria found a sponsor and medical treatment for Jesus in exile, yet the immigration and citizenship agency denied her travel permission.
“It is not very common. We really don’t understand what happened here,” says lawyer Eduardo Soto, who is pro-bono handling the case.
Soto says USCIS did not find sufficient humanitarian reasons and has responded with a request for reconsideration.
“His medical history, photographs, new legal arguments, we answer the government’s allegations and we focus on them,” says lawyer Soto.
From Miami, the doctor specializing in internal medicine, Alfredo Melgar, sent federal authorities a diagnostic summary about the young man’s critical situation. “And the more time passes, the more danger there is.”
“From the infections, from the seizures that occur as a result of the syndrome he has. So, medications to control seizures are in short supply. He has severe chronic malnutrition. “We have to put him in a special chair because being bedridden he suffers from many infections that are difficult to treat.”
Those from Miami who support the family have also contacted the office of Senator Marco Rubio, who is already aware and thus María hopes for a miracle. “I have a lot of faith that the miracle will happen because my son is called Jesus.”
His attorney has said that the application process to ask USCIS to reconsider Jesús’ visa has begun and it is a process that could take up to 90 days.
2023-12-26 02:33:09
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