The daughter of Arsenio Mas, the truck driver who died in a crash last week with FHP trooper Zachary Fink, said she’s in the process of getting an emergency visa.
She’s hoping to make it to Florida in time for her father’s funeral, but the family is in the process of making funeral arrangements
“I want to see him again to give him a big hug,” his daughter Yeisel Más Dominguez said to WPTV reporter Joel Lopez.
She said her brother, who lives in Miami-Dade County, has been helping her apply for the visa. However, immigration attorney Richard Hujber, who is not involved with the case, said the U.S. Embassy in Havana is backlogged after reopening last year.
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Joel Lopez 10:41 PM, Feb 08, 2024
“They’re prioritizing family unity cases and other type of cases, but it’s kind of hard to think of a case more humanitarian and sympathetic than this,” Hujber said. “With a member of Congress involved picking up phones, sending emails, faxes and reaching out, it could be within a week hopefully.”