Nicaragua requested that Wilton Obregón be expatriated from the United States on Tuesday
The petition was made after the boy s father, Lázaro Gutiérrez signed it
It was submitted via the U.S. embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, and the country s embassy in Washington, D.C.
Gutiérrez had told Nicaraguan newspaper that he prefers that the 10-year-old boy stay with his uncle, Misael Obregón, in Miami
Obregón was kidnapped with his mother in Mexico in late March after they were deported from the United States for their unlawful border entry in Texas
Obregón was freed after his uncle paid a $5,000 ransom, but his mother remains in custody of the abductors