Happy ending here: he was admitted to the country a week later, on his second attempt, in time to start classes. (I'm not making excuses for the---dire---state

Happy ending here: he was admitted to the country a week later, on his second attempt, in time to start classes. (I'm not making excuses for the---dire---state of our immigration policy as a whole. But I was happy to see that this particular case worked out in the end.)