Yves Gomes came to the United States from India when he was a year old. He is a Paint Branch High School graduate, where he graduated in the top 5% of his class and was accepted to the University of Maryland College Park. Due to his immigration status, he was unable to afford the tuition and unable to qualify for financial aid. What his parents considered his greatest achievement came on the heels of their own deportation and a court order that Yves also be deported. Yves’ church, St. Camillus, launched an enormous legal, community, and political campaign to keep Yves here and he was able to obtain Deferred Action on his deportation (this means that ICE has decided not to act on his removal from the country at this time).

Yves wants to attend University of Maryland College Park to study biology so he can continue on to medical school and become a doctor.