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Visitor's Visa Denied for Mom of Parkdale High Senior
The mother of Divesh Riza, a refugee from Nepal, was denied a visa to attend his graduation next week.
High school graduations are traditionally a time for family celebration, but for one soon-to-be Parkdale grad, there will be one important person missing from the festivities at the Comcast Center on Friday.
Tara Sangroula, the mother of Parkdale High School senior Divesh Riza, was denied a visitor's visa to come to the United States from Nepal to watch her son graduate, Fox 5 reports.
Riza is a recipient of the Gates Millennium Scholarship, which will fully pay his college tuition, according to Fox 5. He is United States legally with is father and sister as refugees, and said he thinks they reason his mother's visa was denied is that the government fears she will not return to Nepal following the graduation. Riza told Fox 5 that this is not his family's intention.
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"Our plan is to send her back. Because she has a good job there. So she would like to keep that ... intact," Riza told Fox 5.
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