As the numbers dwindle and diminish

The Heald family has always been known to be a big family. My father is an only son of an only son and so it was up to him to carry on the name. He definitely did that! He has 6 sons and 2 daughters that were all living here in Utah. To further carry it on, I have 2 sons with the Heald last name and my brother also has 2 sons.

When we first moved to the United States, my Dad contacted an immigration lawyer over here to try and get legal residency. He got everything set up, and the lawyer told us to go ahead and come over and he would get everything taken care of when we got here. We sold pretty much everything we owned, jumped on a plane and moved here to Utah. When we got here, my Dad found out that this lawyer was doing everything illegally. Of course there was no going back, we had already spent all of our money getting over here and getting a house. My Dad fired the crooked lawyer and hired a new legal one. It took us 10 years to get our residency and it was a tough 10 years. My Dad had to work some pretty crappy jobs and my Mom had no option to work. When we were finally able to get our applications in for legal residency, the way that it works is they put out an order to deport us, we appeal that order and then fight our case to stay. We went through all of that and fortunately won the case.

now here we are 14 years later, and we just found out some new things about immigration... My sister got into some legal trouble, and the charges against her brought up the possibility of deportation. She of course got a lawyer and started to fight the case but apparently you can only appeal a deportation order once in your life. Since we had done that once before when my sister was only a kid, there was no chance of fighting it. There was nothing we could do, and although they won't tell anyone when they will do it, we are all guessing that today they will be putting her on a plane back to England. I am sure it isn't going to be easy for her, the last time she lived there, she was only 4 years old!

Now one of my brothers is facing the same possiblity. So things aren't looking good for the Heald population in Utah. We are still not sure what will happen, but I will keep you posted. Cross your fingers that we don't have to lose anymore!