A Danish father who came into the United States legally and was in the process of becoming a U.S. citizen has now spent well over a month in immigration detention after he was taken into custody at his citizenship interview in April.
Savannah Eriksen, the wife of 32-year-old Kasper Juul Eriksen, told Mississippi Today that her husband “was detained for a paperwork miscommunication from 2015, and I was sent home with no explanation and no idea where my husband had been transported.”
Savannah Eriksen said her husband had been going through the process of trying to become a citizen “for years.”
The couple met in 2009 when Kasper Eriksen left his hometown of Aalborg, Denmark, to come to the U.S. as a high school exchange student in Starkville, Mississippi, according to the newspaper.
They continued their relationship at a distance after Kasper Eriksen returned to Denmark in 2010. He came back to Mississippi as a legal immigrant in 2013 and the couple married a year later, according to the outlet. During that time, Kasper Eriksen obtained work as a welder, paid taxes and had four children with his wife. The two are now expecting a fifth child.
