After a several months teams struggle with the authorities, got Shaima Swileh Tuesday granted the visa. She will be flying to San Francisco on Wednesday, says Basim Elkarra of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which went to legal action to get the exception for innreiseforbudet.
Rare disease
Swileh live in Egypt, but coming from Yemen. Yemeni citizens are denied to travel to the united STATES because of president Donald Trumps politics. Innreiseforbudet includes most citizens from Yemen.
Swilehs two-year-old son Abdullah Hassan was, like his father Ali Hassan, got an entry permit before Trumps travel restrictions were introduced last summer. It did not Swileh.
In the fall took the father to the son to California so that he would get treatment for a rare genetic brain disease, tells the Elkarra.
the Treatment where, however, have not yielded the desired results. The disease has worsened, and the little boy struggling to breathe on your own. The doctors think he has a short time left to live.
Tårevåt appeal
In connection with his son’s illness sought therefore Swileh exemption from innreiseforbudet because of the extraordinary situation. But it lasted and it did and she got no answer from the american authorities.
– All she wants is to hold him in your hand one last time. If I could have taken him away from respiratoren and on the plane, I would have taken him with her. But he would not clear, said his father Sunday.
And on Tuesday, it was thus clear that the Swileh still meet his dying son.
Us embassy in Cairo issued the visa to the mother after a tårevåt TV-submitted appeal by the father.
the Mother refused to see his dying son (2)
