Flint Twp. man trying to stay in U.S. deported to Montenegro

Robert Berishaj and Lula Dedivanaj are engaged to be married, but there's a catch that's preventing them from marital bliss.

Berishaj is now on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, deported last week by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to Montenegro even though he's lived in the U.S. since he was 9. Berishaj is of Albanian descent and was born in Montenegro.

"He is my world. He means everything to me," Dedivanaj said Monday, wiping away tears. They met three months ago and she said they were set to be married Jan. 19 in St. Paul Catholic Church in Rochester, where many of Albanian heritage attend. Dedivanaj of Fenton was born in the U.S., but her ethnicity is also Albanian.