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Gloria Hoffman

Late last year, Dustin Hoffman and his wife Gloria started the paperwork to secure a visa for her to live in the U.S.

The couple, along with their 5-year-old daughter Chaya and Hoffman's 12-year-old step son Israel, lived together in Argentina, where Hoffman had moved in 2013 after doing a deployment with the U.S. Army in Iraq.

"My daughter is growing up and she's very smart and my stepson he's very smart," Hoffman said. "But the resources in Argentina for an autistic child and the school system in Argentina … I don't know. I just feel like I needed to give my daughter the same opportunities that I had growing up."

But nearly a year later, the kids and Gloria are stuck in Argentina in bureaucratic limbo due to continuing delays in the processing of their visa.

That's because this January the Trump administration banned the processing of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries.…