The Trump administration's travel ban has forced American citizens to live apart from their husbands, wives and children for years, and there's no end in sight for many families.
In this March 21, 2019, photo, Sadek Ahmed walks with his sons Adel, 9, right, and Mutaz, 7, after picking them up from school in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Their mother, Amena Abdulkarem, is stuck in Yemen with her two younger sons, the boys’ brothers. Their family’s situation is representative of the toll that the Trump administration’s almost-forgotten travel ban has taken on an untold number of families.
Their family’s situation is representative of the toll that the Trump administration’s travel ban has taken on an untold number of families. Ahmed, a 31-year-old school maintenance worker in New York and a U.S. citizen, and other Americans with relatives from countries targeted by the ban see no end to their separations. And they say they have no idea how to get a coveted waiver created, but seldom issued, by the government to help families avoid being apart for so long.
The administration announced that waivers would be granted on an individual basis so long as doing so did not threaten national security. But immigrants and their advocates contend there’s no formal system to apply for a waiver, and they have sued the government in federal courts in California and New York. They describe an arbitrary process with no clear guidance on how to make their cases or ensure that consular officials accept their documentation.
The travel ban’s effect has been stark: Almost 38,000 people seeking immigrant or tourist visas have been blocked from the U.S. since the ban took effect. Only 2,673 waivers were granted between December 2017 and January 2019, according to the State Department, which did not comment on how the waivers were granted.
Ahmed, who came to the U.S. as a teen in 2005, married Abdulkarem in 2008, after meeting her in Yemen through mutual connections. She remained there and he would visit. Their older two sons were born in 2009 and 2011. Now the family is split up. He and the couple’s two older children are in Brooklyn with his parents. She lives in Yemen with their younger sons, ages 5 and 1.
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