The United States heard the plea of the family of a Colombian immigrant diagnosed with terminal cancer and granted her parents humanitarian visas to join her in California.
"What great joy we feel to have achieved that Paula Durán
's parents
were granted the American VISA for their reunion in California. When we unite as a country we can achieve great things," said Colombian congresswoman Saray Robayo on Twitter, who helped to the family with the application.
The tweet was accompanied by a video in which Paula Durán's parents are seen leaving the United States embassy in Bogotá, the Colombian capital.
Paula Durán
, 27, was diagnosed in the eighth month of pregnancy with
stomach cancer and a large brain tumor.
The cancer metastasized rapidly.
When the doctors gave her a month to live, her husband, Sergio Vega, started a campaign on social networks so that his in-laws, who live in Colombia, could accompany Durán for the rest of his life.
The campaign moved many
and was shared by influencers and artists, until it reached the ears of officials in both Colombia and the United States.
The couple emigrated to Concord, California eight months ago, after crossing the southern border with their two daughters.
They were expecting their third child when Durán received the diagnosis.
It was the 34th week of pregnancy and the doctors had to intervene in Durán to remove the baby from her, Juan José, and subject her to an operation for cancer.
Sergio Vega and Paula Durán.Instagram
The exact date on which Durán's parents will travel to the United States is still unknown, but Congresswoman Robayo said that the airline LATAM had provided the plane tickets.
Leaving the United States embassy in Bogotá, Durán's mother, Gloria Camargo, said she was grateful to all the people who have mobilized for her daughter's case.
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“Thank you very much because you, the media, have moved the heart of this embassy, you have moved the heart of the entire world and I am happy, I am happy.
I couldn't believe it, I almost fainted," the mother told the media.
Durán's husband reacted emotionally to the granting of humanitarian visas for his in-laws.
"They are very important on this path, which is the miracle. Very soon they will be here and they will inject all that love they have for her
," Vega said on her Instagram account.
He added that Durán entered a new treatment, that he has recovered the sight of both eyes and that his headache has decreased.
However, he remains with chest ailments.
“Here we are doing what is humanly possible, because we leave the impossible to God,” said her husband.
