Bring Anya Home!
"Anya Turovinina applied for a visa to come to study English in the U.S. She was to be seeing her sister for the first time in 3 years. Four days before she was to fly to Boston, the United States Embassy in Moscow denied her a visa because she is an orphan and “likely to try to remain in the U.S.”
If you think of all the foreign nationals here studying legally and in many cases illegally, it is absurd to see why Anya was denied. She is not a threat to this country, she would not be a burden. She is a young girl who wants to be with her sister and have a chance at a better life. Those of us who have been to Russia and have been involved in Russian adoption know what the future can be for those who age out of orphanages and have no place to go.
It is unfathomable to me to think that someone sitting behind a desk in the Embassy gets to decide this girls fate.
You will see after reading the pages that the best hope right now is intervention from the State Department and Hilary Clinton.
Please visit the blog and Facebook pages below. Please lend your voice and help reunite these two sisters and make this family complete!
This is the season for miracles, lets hope and pray Anya will receive her Christmas miracle soon!
Thank you!!!
http://bringanyahome.org/
Facebook Group
Facebook Letters to State Department
News Coverage:
Salem News
Boston Globe
NECN TV
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