Mexico Double-Transplant Patient Files for US Humanitarian Visa Application The Associated Press
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Jose Chua Lopez (left) holds hands with his mother, Myra Lopez Martinez, during a news conference last May in Hermosillo, Mexico. (AP)

A young Mexican man who is urgently trying to travel to the Mayo Clinic for a double-organ transplant filed a third U.S. visa application after being turned down twice.

Jose Chua, 20, of Hermosillo, applied for a humanitarian visa after previously seeking a tourist visa and being rejected, said the head of a U.S.-based nonprofit group assisting with his case.

Keven Forbes, director of the U.S.-based Consejo de Latinos Unidos, which helps uninsured people get access to medical care, said that once Chua is allowed to enter the U.S., the group plans to press a formal complaint with the U.S. government.

“The problem goes beyond Jose. … The situation has become complicated and raises doubts as to the motives of why a consulate would deny a visa on two occasions and did not directly offer a humanitarian visa,” Forbes said.

U.S. State Department officials have declined comment on Chua’s specific case, citing standard confidentiality rules, but said officials were looking into it.

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