• My wife, Mallela Celis, is a Venezuelan refugee and we are trying to adjust her status to permanent resident.• Because we've provided financial support to her family in Venezuela and because of a medical emergency, the money we had saved is gone.• We need $2400 for her and her daughter's immigration application and an additional amount for an attorney to represent us at the immigration interview.---Mallela Celis is one of the most wonderful people you will ever meet. I believe it so much that I married her as soon as we were able to get married.May and her daughter Isabella are from Venezuela. They came here last year after it became too dangerous for them to stay there. It's so dangerous for May in Venezuela that she may never be able to return home. She came to the United States, applied for asylum and somewhere in the middle of it all, we met.I have a great job that takes care of all of us, but there's not a lot of room for saving. And we needed to save because applying for May's and Isabella's permanent residency will cost thousands of dollars. It blows my mind that something so important to people moving to the U.S. can be so incredibly expensive. Especially because they have to pay it before they're even allowed to get a job.We've tried our hardest, but we've had a lot of unexpected expenses. We spent a lot of money bringing her family to the U.S. to keep them safe. Because of that, there are some people here in the United States who may not be around right now if we had not.We've talked to lawyers who have helped us prepare our documents and we're ready to submit her application to the government to get the process started. Unfortunately, very recently, we've had to spend all of our savings on some emergency medical care for May. One of the worst parts of it all is that I pay a lot for medical insurance, but the cost of everything completely drained us. I'd like to ask for your help.We need $2400 so May and her daughter can apply for permanent residency based on our marriage. Two months after she submits her application, she will be eligible to start looking for work.That’s not the only issue, though. We’ve been warned repeatedly by multiple experts that right now is a very, very bad time to be an immigrant in the United States. The government is working hard right now to make legal immigration as difficult and expensive as possible. We were told explicitly that if we don’t have a lawyer when it’s time to have our interview, we could end up losing the entire application fee and have to start the whole process over again. Even scarier: if May’s application is rejected, she could be removed from the country and forced on a plane back to Venezuela.If there is anything that we get above the $2400 we need for the application, we’re going to save it to pay for an attorney to represent May and Isabella. This process is a neverending, nervewracking experience. We've chosen to forego Christmas and Birthday gifts and we chose not to go on a honeymoon because we were saving up for this.May is a talented, educated, and hardworking woman and she is going to do very well for herself in the U.S. but we all have to start somewhere. The support that you give to us is literally everything we need for the both of us to have a future together.Thank you for reading.