Stories of people whose lives forever changed Trump's decree

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27 January 2017, a week after the inauguration, US President Donald Trump fulfilled one of the main election promises and temporarily banned 7 Muslim countries from entering Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya and Somalia. Trump explains his toughest decree by the need to secure borders.

ForumDaily gathered several stories of people whose lives were forever changed by Trump's decree.

Two years ago, Roslyn Sinha, a TV presenter from Dubai, came to Los Angeles for work and met her love, a hotel manager. Last summer, they got married and settled in Hearst, Texas.

“I felt at home in Texas,” the TV presenter recalls.

But soon the news came to the family that made her temporarily return to the United Arab Emirates - her mother was paralyzed.
Sinha had to ask for a special permit from the US immigration authorities to temporarily leave the country with a further return. After an 6 month-long wait for permission, she flew to the UAE on Friday, January 27.

Now she may be stuck in Dubai - after Trump’s decree banning entry into the United States for migrants and refugees, and not only from 7 countries in the Middle East. Trump signed the order while Sinha was on board the plane.

The decree does not apply to citizens of the United Arab Emirates, where Sinha was born and raised. But this country grants citizenship on the basis of heritage, and not by place of birth. This means that she has an Iraqi passport, and Iraq is one of the 7 countries affected by the ban.
Now Sinha fears that she may be deported to a country she does not know at all.

In Texas, her husband is desperately trying to get his wife back, but he is not sure that it will work out. Neil Sinha says she plans to return on Catar Airlines flight next week, but the airline has already told her that she will not be able to board her due to Trump's decree.

If the husband fails to return the wife, the couple will consider life outside the US, possibly in Canada.

Trump ruined our lives

This photograph of the Faud Charef family was taken after they were taken from the aircraft that was heading for the United States.

It doesn't matter that they had valid visas and were heading to Nashville to start a new life.

This family sold their house, car and all their property, so they had enough to live in the first months in the United States. Children were taken out of school, Sharef left his well-paid job in a pharmaceutical company. In addition, they were all at a loss of $ 5 thousand. It was this amount that cost them tickets to the USA.

Sharef lost his sense of security, as he once worked for a US government subcontractor after the US invasion of Iraq. He was a translator and leader of one of the programs. This job was full of dangers. He and his other colleagues faced threats, some of the employees were kidnapped and killed.

He and his family received visas after the 2-year verification and with the help of a special US resettlement program for Iraqi employees of the US government.

“Donald Trump has ruined our lives,” Sharef said. “How can he do this to people who risked their lives to help America?”

He risked his life working for the USA in Iraq

Saif Ali quit his job in Baghdad, sold his house and car after his family received immigration visas to the United States last month. They were supposed to fly on Monday, January 30.

The man applied to immigrate with his wife and three children in 3 under a special immigrant visa program for Iraqis who risked their lives working on behalf of US troops or the US government in Iraq.

2 the day before their scheduled departure, Ali received a phone call informing him of the abolition of the visa due to Trump's new decree.

“This is a tragedy,” he said. “It’s like I was hit with a dagger.”

Ali worked as an IT administrator for a company that collaborated with the United States Agency for International Development from 2010 to 2013.

“We were considered traitors,” he said. His letter of recommendation from his employer proves the "dedicated work" of Ali, who "sacrificed his personal safety."

3 passed the year before the family got their visas.

His brother, who lives in Arizona, rented real estate for the family and paid $ 8 thousand in advance, an amount he could not get back. In addition, my brother bought furniture for $ 3,5 thousands to prepare the house for his brother's arrival.

Now Ali has no work, money and housing. He stayed with friends in Baghdad and is not sure about the future of his family.

Roya Arablodariche was visiting her family in Iran and was about to return to her husband at Columbia University, where she was to receive her Ph.D. this Sunday, January 29.

But when the 29-year-old woman arrived at Iran's international airport Isfahan, Turkish Airlines refused to give her a boarding pass.

“I spoke to the agents at the office and they told me I couldn’t board the plane because they had received a letter notifying me,” she said from her parents’ home in Isfahan. “I asked them to show me the message, but they said it was a secret and they had no right.”

She lived in the US 2 of the year on a family reunification visa (with her husband Mohammadrez Bolandnazar). The couple has been married for 5 years.

Mohammadrez said he would return to Iran.

“I will leave my program. “I don’t care anymore,” he said. — My priority is my family. My wife and my parents. My education is at the very last place.”

Mohammadrez managed to return to New York last week after visiting his family in Iran.

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