US-based Yemeni family reported that the mother is was granted waiver to visit the US to hold her dying son one last time. Shaima Swileh, the mother, was refused visa to the US to visit her dying son in California as a result of the US travel ban. The news came moments after the the father, Ali Hassan, appeared on CNN begging consular officials to assist his wife with her visa application process to see her son before he dies. The son, Abdullah Hassan, is a two-year-old who suffers from a terminal brain illness known as hypomyelination, which affects his ability to breathe. Doctors reported that he will not be able to make it and it now relying on life-support. According to Hassan’s family, Shaima wishes to see him one more time before he is taken off of life-support. However, his father, Ali Hassan, said that Shaima is unable to obtain a visitors’ visa to the US because of the travel ban President Trump imposed on majority Muslim countries. The ban is imposed on Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, preventing nationals from entering the US. The 22-year-old father,…
