SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — A Savannah mother who has been separated from her six-year-old son for over two years is looking for resolutions.
Alejandra Castro did not expect to be separated from her son for this long. The Honduran national now living in Savannah is waiting on one thing: for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to approve her son’s immigration case. The process began in February 2023 when her U.S. citizen husband filed a petition for Alejandra’s then four-year-old son. The family was told this process would take about a year.
According to USCIS, a petition for an immediate relative has a median processing time of 14.6 months. However, 28 months and 4 weeks have passed since the family filed the petition.
Six-year-old André counts down the days until he can see his mother again—drawing calendars and circling Fridays, waiting for the next time she’ll fly home to hold him…