PORTLAND, Oregon - Twice daily, Yuliya Day reaches out by phone from Los Angeles to see how her mother and aunt are doing in the attic they've rented in Warsaw. The sisters, 68 and 70 years old, crossed the Polish-Ukrainian border with two cats and few belongings after fleeing Kharkiv.
As of mid-last week, around 14,500 Uniting for Ukraine applications had been filed, according to the Department of Homeland Security's US Citizenship and Immigration Services agency . "It's a hustle," Bashynskyy said."But I'll try to accomplish it." Yana asked to only be identified by her first name out of safety concerns.
"Now I'm kind of discouraging it," Shepelsky said, saying Uniting for Ukraine offers"a better status." Artem Plakhotnyi, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based dance teacher, had been trying for weeks to book an emergency visa appointment for his sister-in-law and her four-year-old twins. Four days after Russian soldiers invaded Ukraine, his cousin and his cousin's nine-year-old daughter died trying to flee Kharkiv, he said. After repeated attempts, he boarded a flight to Warsaw and then flew with his relatives to Tijuana, where they requested and received humanitarian parole last month.
Ilona Dluzhynska, a Ukrainian advocate in Mexico, said other Ukrainians have travelled to Mexico City from the border on their own and are in hotels awaiting immigration processing.
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