Visa for one year without papers with a rare blood disorder obtained a visa in the United States

The undocumented Honduran queen Gomez, who suffers from a strange blood disease and is the subject of an eviction orderOn Thursday, he obtained a one – year humanitarian visa allowing him to continue his treatment in the United States.

"Now I'm calmer, I can breathe well", confessed to Efe Gómez, after being informed by the Immigration and Customs Law Enforcement Service (ICE) permission to stay in the country and noted that if she was deported He could continue to treat the illness he is suffering from.

Honduran, who arrived in the United States in 2005 after the badbadination of her 16-year-old son, was diagnosed in 2009 with thrombocytopenia, a disease that changes the production of platelets in your body and leaves strong consequences, and why you should take each day 3,000 milligrams of hydroxyurea.

According to a letter from the Jackson Memorial Hospital, where the disease is treated,In your country, there is no medicine to take from six tablets a day. low risk of putting your life in danger.

"My dream is that they find the cure", recognized the undocumented, who suffered a stroke and suffered therapy for 4 years, to work currently, although with "a lot of effort", as a house cleaner.

He noted that he was still suffering from sequelae such as colic or vomiting. Moreover, she sometimes loses her memory and does not remember the dates of birth of her two children (she has a 30 year old daughter).

Although you do not have health insurance, can be treated at the aforementioned hospital in Miami, which subsidizes the cost of certain remedies that in pharmacies can reach a thousand dollars for every bottle of 30 tablets, because you have consented to do tests with for the study of the disease.

"It's a very rare type of disease"added the woman who, in her home country, worked with children at risk so that they leave the gangs.

Gomez asked the last decade political asylum, but was denied by the US immigration authorities and since then he has been granted a temporary residence permit so as not to be a priority case, a situation that has changed under the strict policies of the current administration of President Donald Trump.

For next year and while waiting for an answer to your application for residence permanent for humanitarian reasons, indicates that he will ask for a temporary stay of one year, who's waiting to be badisted as it happened this Thursday.

"If ICE decides to deport me, it's like they condemned me to death"Said Gómez, who, when leaving his post at Miramar's ICE office, was surrounded by activists from El Salvador. Miami Workers Center, who accompanied her in this process.

For now, she admits relieved to know that You can go to your regular appointment at the hospital, scheduled for the end of the month..

With information from EFEUSA