A U.S. visa could save a young Mexican man’s life. Why can’t he get one?

*The State Department and Homeland Security have a humanitarian parole in the works for Chua Lopez, but it’s not a Visa. The authorities haven’t said why they’ve denied the Visa. VL

By Joshua Partlow, The Washington Post

MEXICO CITY–The case was urgent: doctors believed that without heart and liver transplants, Jose Chua Lopez, a sickly 20-year-old Mexican man born with a heart defect, might not survive.

The procedures weren’t available in Mexico, but the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., had approved Chua for an appointment, as long as he could get a U.S. visa to cross the border. Family and friends had raised $18,000 for travel and the first stages of his treatment. Chua, his mother, and two younger brothers have all traveled in the past on tourist visas to the United States, and his father is a resident who lives in Tucson, Ariz. His health was deteriorating.

“Each day, I get a little worse,” Chua said.

But this week the American consulate in Chua’s hometown of Hermosillo denied him a tourist visa–for the second time.

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