Current Events

For those who don't know our previous immigration issues, here is the post regarding that: http://youngmomincollege.blogspot.com/2012_09_01_archive.html

Well it has been a very long time since I posted! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
So we did not get very good news this week. We met to with our lawyer in Tuesday to discuss Melvin's asylum interview. We went into his office happy and left miserable. We went into the conference room after waiting like an hour for our lawyer and started a conference call with a lady in D.C. After formalities she informed us Melvin's asylum was denied. I was shocked. For some reason I was just positive he would be his application for asylum would be accepted. Maybe the fact that his father was murdered about 7 years ago and since I've know Melvin his brother has been shot for defending a friends and end up paralyzed and in the 4 years we've been together four of his friends have been shot and killed. With all that tragedy I just assumed he would be granted asylum but apparently it's not scary enough. I completely broke down in the conference room, this was our last chance. Our lawyer so understanding and said it was all he could do to keep it together and some time his job sucks because of this part. We are going to have a judge review Melvin's case because if we didn't then he would be deported. There is also a possibility he will go back to immigration custody while the judge deliberates but our lawyer is going to do everything to stop that.
If worse comes to worse and he is deported there is not much of a chance of me and Allie going with him. I do not want to raise my daughter in a country where crime is so common, I would genuinely be scared to go outside. But I also don't want us to be separated at all. We will probably move to a country like Costa Rica, Panama, or Spain. The problem with that is we can't even afford a place on our own here even with Melvin working, how in the world will we be able to afford a place in a different country with no job lined up? It just scares me so much! But I have to remember that God has a plan here even if I don't like it.
Please be praying for us and also for Congress to get their act together and pass immigration reform already.