I'll go too, see you're properly charged.

You are barred from entering the country, you'll be deported back to Moldova now, a Turkish border control officer at Atatürk Airport in Istanbul explained to me in broken English, passing my documents to a promptly summoned policeman.

Imagine you've got everything right your entire life, studied hard, worked hard, maybe even graduated at the top of your class, only to suddenly face the threat of deportation to a country that you know nothing about, with a language that you may not even speak.

When you re ordered removed, the government puts you on a plane and they pay for that, she says. But when you re just expected to leave, then it s really your responsibility to comply and leave by that deadline and if you don t, then, you re here unlawfully and you re out of status.