Ripped apart: How Homeland Security broke up this family
It was the moment Gennady and Melinda Denisenko had prayed would finally come. Nearly a decade after they met, and just weeks shy of their sixth wedding anniversary, Gennady, a man who had fled Soviet Russia to find the freedom for which he had advocated in his home country, and Melinda, a woman who had fallen in love with his big smile and gentle demeanor, were now sitting in the Fairfax office of a federal agency called Citizenship and Immigration Services, about to be legally recognized by the government as a married couple, paving the way for Gennady to at last realize his dream of becoming an American citizen.
At least, that's what they thought.
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