A German Iranian father says he was barred from entering the U.S. to bury his son
By Isaac Stanley-Becker July 12 at 6:01 AM
Family and friends of Irman Iranbomy gathered last month in Falls Church, Va., to say goodbye to the 20-year-old Virginia college student, who had died recently in an accident.
But the young man’s father, Seyed Shahram Iranbomy, was 4,000 miles away in Frankfurt, Germany, unable to attend his son’s funeral or to be there when his casket was lowered into American soil. The German Iranian lawyer’s application for a travel visa to the United States had been denied by the American Consulate in Frankfurt, and his humanitarian appeal had gone unanswered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
On Thursday, two weeks after his son’s funeral, he said he received a rejection, which he vowed would not be the end of the dispute.
“I’m a humanist, not a terrorist,” Iranbomy, 52, said in an interview with The Washington Post.
USCIS and the Bureau of Consular Affairs declined to say why the father, who said he needed three days to commemorate his son’s death, was refused entry.
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