Anna Sorokin aka Anna Delvey.Photo: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/getty
Anna Sorokin, better known under the alias Anna Delvey, is facing deportation to Germany after spending nearly a year inU.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcementdetention — but the exact details of her immigration battle were put into question following recent confusion about her whereabouts.
On Monday, the texting app that allows the public to communicate with inmates in ICE detention notified people that Sorokin, now 31, had been released from custody, according to multiple outlets. Unable to get in touch with her, and knowing that she was at risk of being deported, those close to her quickly feared that her sudden release was evidence of imminent deportation.
The statement continued: “I haven’t heard from Miss Sorokin this afternoon, and so I am working under the presumption that she is being deported.”
But as European reporters waited outside Frankfurt Airport to capture her arrival in Germany, Sorokin was nowhere to be found, prompting confusion about whether she had actually been expelled from the United States.
On Tuesday morning, German news outletDer Spiegelsolved the mystery, reporting that the deportation failed at the last moment when Sorokin refused to leave for the airport while her lawyers filed a motion to stay the decision.
A spokesperson for ICE confirmed to PEOPLE Tuesday afternoon that she remains in a New York detention center “pending removal.”
Though Sorokin’s deportation was delayed, it wasn’t canceled, and Der Spiegel reports that U.S. authorities are trying to secure a new date for her departure — presumably after the window for her to appeal expulsion closes on Saturday.
“I spoke to Anna this morning. She was confused and a little concerned,” Arora toldThe New York Poston Tuesday. “When you don’t know what your future holds, when you can’t call people when you want to to get information, it makes you anxious and frustrated. She’s staying positive, but it’s hard on her.”
Anna Sorokin.
Still, Sorokin said an immigration judge ruled that if she was freed from detention right now and required to report to ICE regularly, she “would have the ability and inclination to continue to commit fraudulent and dishonest acts,” according to the Insider essay.
source: people.com
