Recently I received a photo from one of my clients who has been struggling for months to be reunited with her three youngest children who traveled to the US alone from Guatemala in late 2020.  They were stuck in a sea of red tape fighting to get their kids from a facility in New York.  I have been working with mom, dad, and the older siblings since 2018, so I have come to know them all well.  Receiving that photo of the entire family together for the first time in more than five years brought tears of joy to me.  I haven’t felt that good in a long time.  It was truly touching to see them all together and smiling after each one of them have had a very rough past several years in their own different ways and as a family.

Kathleen Lee
Attorney
Immigration Legal Services