Immigration help to reunite our family

I am writing this in the words of my daughter, who has told me her story that I am putting here for you to read.

Ever and I met in 2015, January 18th. Right away we became fast friends, and we were able to talk to one another about everything.

Ever is one of the nicest people you would ever hope to meet. He rarely gets angry and he is the kind of person that is always looking at the positives in life and lets negative things pass him by.

We dated for a year and he asked me to marry him. He told me he had no legal documents, but that he wasn't asking me to marry him for papers and that he would just stay with me and work "under the table" forever if it meant spending the rest of our lives together.

But we both really wanted to do the right thing, the legal thing. We set about the process of planning our wedding and had friends and family attend our small ceremony. Immediately afterwards, we contacted a lawyer and they took our case, explaining he would at some point have to go back home to El Salvador, after he received his pardon for being in the country illegally, but once the pardon was granted and he went to his final interview he would be given legal papers to be in the United States.

He went to his interview, everything went fine. They said to call the following week and pick up his packet. We called the following week and instead of instructions on picking up the packet they said he was denied because he had been arrested. We had to prove he had never been arrested, and we did that. After that, they contacted him for another interview. His lawyer told him not to worry, it was just a formality. Instead, he arrived at the embassy, other people were there for their interviews, and they took all of the other people into one area, and put him alone in another room all day long. Every now and then the interviewer would come stare at him a moment then walk away.

At the end of the day, after waiting all day, just before closing at 4:00, they called him into the interview room where they told him: "Your case is on the floor. It's done. There's no way to salvage it. Just admit you are a member of this gang." Then they proceeded to interrogate him about being in the gang, demanding to know if he knew this person or that person or somebody else. With each person they named he told them he did not know those people. That he had never been in any gang. The interviewer kept saying, stop lying, just say the truth and you can go. That he, the interviewer, was trying to help him, and he just kept saying, no, I don't know them, over and over again. By the end of the interview, Ever was shaking. He had been there for a full day, he had had nothing to eat, nothing to drink, and then was yelled at and told he would never come back to the United States. He was told he would receive a response about his Visa and they sent him the e-mail denying him reentry.

Of course I want my husband back. Of course my children want their Papi back. We will do anything we can to get them back, and for that we need help. I have spoken to lawyers, and they say that the Embassy does not have final say about a marriage Visa, that the Embassy is not the final law, and while it is a slim chance it is still a chance, that we can fight to get my husband, my children's father, home.

But that costs money, and it could be quite expensive. According to the lawyers we have spoken to, upwards of $100,000, possible more.

I am asking for any donations, any amount, as I try to raise the money to pay the lawyer's fees. Any excess donations to our cause we will, in turn, donate to other families in need, likely at the border, who are suffering from these same problems that are keeping families apart.

Thank you so much for your consideration and your help.