The former Corina de Chalup’s immigration journey began in 1990, when her fiance came to the United States with his Croatian band. While in New Jersey, he was hit by a car driven by a speeding teen and badly hurt, according to Colbert. Emergency room doctors didn’t notice a broken vertebra, though, and because of the error, Maro ended up a quadriplegic.
When told her fiance was hurt, Turcinovic (Corina) obtained a “visa waiver” to enter the country and be at his side. Under the waiver, a foreign national may stay 90 days and then must leave to apply for a visa.
“She came here with no intention of ever staying,” Bill May explained. But it became clear Maro couldn’t be moved in 90 days. Rather than leave the country — and Maro, who had no relatives here —Turcinovic stayed and married Maro, Colbert said.
And on Dec. 28, police officers came knocking at her door and arrested her.
“I saw the police, and I opened with a big smile, because I thought they were looking for a bad guy,” Turcinovic told the Sun-Times earlier this month. “It turned out I was the bad guy.”
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She has a temporary stay of deportation thanks in part to congressman Lipinski but she is not out in the clear yet.
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