Going to see my husband and my kids
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On this day 10/24/2017 and before 3 years ago, and after the war against Gaza in 2014, I had to leave my country without my family.
My husband said: "An absent mother is better than a dead mother", after these words I had to leave.
Behind me, I left my country, my two young children and my husband.
Behind me, I left my kitchen, my library, my books and my bed.
Behind me, I left my friends, my big family and a lot of my memories.
At JFK airport, as I faced the world alone, I said: " I deserve a better life".
To start a new life in a new country is very difficult specially for a woman by herself.
A lot of nice people here told me : "You are a strong woman and you can do it" , and I did.
Thanks to them I was able to overcome the obstacles.
Here and now, I am not afraid any more of darkness birds. I promise God, family and friends to defend my thoughts and beliefs, to stand by the voiceless, to talk and write about their dreams and their rights.
In USA, I stand on a hard ground, I have my pen in one hand and in the other I have my coming days.
After three years here, I am still trying to survive and hope that one day, I will reunite with my husband and my children. I hope that one day I can see them sleeping safely and securely in their beds while my husband and I watch the sunrise together again.
My name is Emtiaz Zourob (36 years old). I am a writer from Gaza, Palestine. I have granted an asylum in 2015 and my family had an approval to come to USA in 2016. They left Gaza to Egypt and now they are in Cairo for more one year. My family's visa interview was in April 19, 2017. After the interview , they put our case under the administrative processing.
Now we are waiting the US embassy to finish what they called "administrative processing". My husband and I sent a lot of emails to the embassy telling them about our difficult situation and asked them to expedite the administrative processing but we don't get any good response from them until now. They keep saying " Your visa case is currently undergoing necessary administrative processing ".I can't understand why this administrative processing is taking a long time.
I didn't see my husband Ramzi Zourob and my two kids, Rama (9 years old) and Ahmed (5 years old) for 3 years!
Can you imagine this, a mom couldn’t see her kids for 3 years! My heart is so broken and no one care about this.
In my son Ahmed's 5th birthday, it was in last September, I asked him what gift he wants, he answered me: " I want to be with you, Mommy! This is my gift". With these words, he broke my heart, I was so helpless because I couldn’t do this to him. He is a poor kid, his mom had to leave him when he was just two years old!
My kids feel so sad and depressed and they don’t deserve that!
Last months, I was so sick and have health problems such as: Iron deficiency anemia due to chronic blood loss – Acquired underactive thyroid – Anxiety problem – Depression – Chronic fatigue. I was losing my blood and the doctors here didn’t know the reason. And my body didn’t respond to the medicine so they started to give me iron infusion every Friday for six weeks at Ephrata Cancer Center.
Now I am still feeling sick and the doctors think that I may have a serious problem. So I have a procedure "Colonoscopy" in Oct 31 to take a biopsy to be sure if I have a colon cancer or not.
I am dying here and no one care. I feel so sick and depressed because I am alone and I can't take care of myself. I need my husband to come and help me in these hard days. I need to see my kids before anything bad could happen to me. I need my family to be with me.
I am trying to work hard to pay my bills and fix my old car or buy a new one but I am still so sick, I can't do it. I need money to establish a new life here for me and for my family, and to continue my study to get master's degree.
In Oct 2, 2017. I got my green card and now it is allowed to me to go to Egypt to see my family for a while then comeback. I feel so excited but the problem is I have to wait until I am done with my procedure and I don’t have enough money to pay my bills and to buy the ticket and gifts to my kids. I will spend one month there, I know it will be very difficult to leave them again, but I have to.
So please help a mom with a broken heart to be reunited with her family again.
And please pass my story to your friends and your relatives.
Thank you for helping
I do appreciate it.
Emtiaz Zourob
My husband said: "An absent mother is better than a dead mother", after these words I had to leave.
Behind me, I left my country, my two young children and my husband.
Behind me, I left my kitchen, my library, my books and my bed.
Behind me, I left my friends, my big family and a lot of my memories.
At JFK airport, as I faced the world alone, I said: " I deserve a better life".
To start a new life in a new country is very difficult specially for a woman by herself.
A lot of nice people here told me : "You are a strong woman and you can do it" , and I did.
Thanks to them I was able to overcome the obstacles.
Here and now, I am not afraid any more of darkness birds. I promise God, family and friends to defend my thoughts and beliefs, to stand by the voiceless, to talk and write about their dreams and their rights.
In USA, I stand on a hard ground, I have my pen in one hand and in the other I have my coming days.
After three years here, I am still trying to survive and hope that one day, I will reunite with my husband and my children. I hope that one day I can see them sleeping safely and securely in their beds while my husband and I watch the sunrise together again.
My name is Emtiaz Zourob (36 years old). I am a writer from Gaza, Palestine. I have granted an asylum in 2015 and my family had an approval to come to USA in 2016. They left Gaza to Egypt and now they are in Cairo for more one year. My family's visa interview was in April 19, 2017. After the interview , they put our case under the administrative processing.
Now we are waiting the US embassy to finish what they called "administrative processing". My husband and I sent a lot of emails to the embassy telling them about our difficult situation and asked them to expedite the administrative processing but we don't get any good response from them until now. They keep saying " Your visa case is currently undergoing necessary administrative processing ".I can't understand why this administrative processing is taking a long time.
I didn't see my husband Ramzi Zourob and my two kids, Rama (9 years old) and Ahmed (5 years old) for 3 years!
Can you imagine this, a mom couldn’t see her kids for 3 years! My heart is so broken and no one care about this.
In my son Ahmed's 5th birthday, it was in last September, I asked him what gift he wants, he answered me: " I want to be with you, Mommy! This is my gift". With these words, he broke my heart, I was so helpless because I couldn’t do this to him. He is a poor kid, his mom had to leave him when he was just two years old!
My kids feel so sad and depressed and they don’t deserve that!
Last months, I was so sick and have health problems such as: Iron deficiency anemia due to chronic blood loss – Acquired underactive thyroid – Anxiety problem – Depression – Chronic fatigue. I was losing my blood and the doctors here didn’t know the reason. And my body didn’t respond to the medicine so they started to give me iron infusion every Friday for six weeks at Ephrata Cancer Center.
Now I am still feeling sick and the doctors think that I may have a serious problem. So I have a procedure "Colonoscopy" in Oct 31 to take a biopsy to be sure if I have a colon cancer or not.
I am dying here and no one care. I feel so sick and depressed because I am alone and I can't take care of myself. I need my husband to come and help me in these hard days. I need to see my kids before anything bad could happen to me. I need my family to be with me.
I am trying to work hard to pay my bills and fix my old car or buy a new one but I am still so sick, I can't do it. I need money to establish a new life here for me and for my family, and to continue my study to get master's degree.
In Oct 2, 2017. I got my green card and now it is allowed to me to go to Egypt to see my family for a while then comeback. I feel so excited but the problem is I have to wait until I am done with my procedure and I don’t have enough money to pay my bills and to buy the ticket and gifts to my kids. I will spend one month there, I know it will be very difficult to leave them again, but I have to.
So please help a mom with a broken heart to be reunited with her family again.
And please pass my story to your friends and your relatives.
Thank you for helping
I do appreciate it.
Emtiaz Zourob
Organizer
Emtiaz Zourob
Organizer
Lancaster, PA