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After three years, Vicky Chavez can safely leave her sanctuary at a Salt Lake City church Chavez, who is from Honduras, was granted a stay in her immigration case. (Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Vicky Chavez leaves the First Unitarian Church for the first time in three years, April 15, 2021. In January 2018, Chavez sought sanctuary at the church, living in a converted Sunday school classroom for more than three years with her two daughters. Chavez and her two daughters have been granted a stay and are no longer considered a priority for deportation by the United States. Chavez will ...

Vicky Chavez leaves the First Unitarian Church for the first time in 1,168 days Thursday, April 15, 2021, in Salt Lake City. Chavez, a Honduran woman in the U.S. illegally who received sanctuary in a Salt Lake City church with her two young daughters for more than three years is now free to leave without risk of deportation. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) Thursday, April 15, 2021 5:43 PM EST By SOPHIA EPPOLITO, AP SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — After over three years living in a Salt Lake City church to avoid being deported, Honduran immigrant Vicky Chavez stepp...

Vicky Chavez leaves sanctuary after 3 years in Salt Lake City church and last updated 2021-04-15 19:40:13-04 SALT LAKE CITY — After spending over three years in sanctuary inside a Salt Lake City church, Vicky Chavez and her two children are now free to leave Thursday. The fear of deportation has dissipated for Chavez now that she has been granted one year of stay on her immigration case. "We have been waiting for this day for more than 39 months, and I'm here sharing with everybody that I'm free right now and I can't believe it," said Chavez in a news conference.

Honduran woman wins stay of deportation and exits church in Utah having spent three YEARS in sanctuary after being ordered out of the US in 2016  Vicky Chavez, 33, stepped outside of First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City on Thursday with tears in her eyes as church congregants and friends cheered Chavez has been granted a stay of removal by the Biden administration that will allow her to remain in the United States for at least a year She said she received the notice from Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday telling her that she had received the stay of removal

| Updated: March 25, 2021, 12:41 a.m. When the pandemic began, a two-week home lockdown was more than many Americans wanted to deal with. Vicky Chavez hasn’t stepped outside in more than three years. She and her two young daughters have been stuck inside Salt Lake City’s First Unitarian Church, where she is seeking sanctuary from immigration enforcement. The mother fears for her safety, and that of her children, if she has to return to Honduras, where she fled because of domestic abuse and social upheaval. Her status has become even more stressful in the past year because she has been gi...