Ritara Compton met the man of her dreams on Instagram. Compton, who is a website developer and delivery driver, is a resident of Denver. He’s a laborer from Syria who lives in a refugee camp in Lebanon. After about seven months of video chatting, she bought a plane ticket and flew to Lebanon, where the couple met for the first time in person and got married in September 2018. Just days after the wedding, though, Compton had to return to her commitments in the United States. Her husband has been waiting months for a visa to join his new bride. “All I can do is buckle down and work and hope for the best,” Compton said. This is just one example of the many couples and families who are enduring forced separation because of complex and changing immigration and refugee policies. For example, the travel ban upheld by the Supreme Court on June 26, 2018 (PDF, 439 KB) External link prohibits nearly all immigrants, refugees, and visa holders from Iran, Libya, S...
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