A San Diego man is pleading for help to get his wife released from the Otay Mesa Detention Center after ICE officials detained her following the completion of her green card interview.

Last Thursday, Viktoriia Bulavina, a Ukrainian refugee, and her husband, Viktor Korol, came to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for what was supposed to be Bulavina’s green card appointment.

But Korol left without her because she was detained by immigration officials. Now, he’s trying to figure out a way to get her released and back home.

Bulavina arrived in the U.S. in 2022 as a refugee, with a humanitarian parole, fleeing from the war in Ukraine.

“Airplanes were dropping bombs, and missiles, and she’s there, they said, for a week in a basement, and then they fled to the other part of Ukraine

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