They then offered to let the Hubbards through-without Seraphim. embassy officials that they would have no problem crossing.īut Ukrainian officials at the border were confounded by the document’s absence, and placed them in a detention center. Faced with a “freaking nightmare” unfolding around them, the family packed up and made their way to the Slovakian border, having been told by U.S. Hours later, Russia invaded.Īs Aislinn and her boyfriend scrambled to keep their baby safe, Hubbard turned around and flew back to meet them. What are you guys going to do in the case that war breaks out?’ And they said, ‘I don’t know.’”Īfter flying to Ukraine in early February to retain a lawyer and check on his daughter, Hubbard arrived safely back at home in Fitchburg on Feb. “It could be two to six months before we get one. “I said, ‘Hey, here’s the situation, we got this little boy who doesn’t have a birth certificate,” Hubbard told The Daily Beast last week. officials of a potential problem in December. Worried as Russia continued to amass troops on the Ukrainian border, Hubbard first alerted U.S. She was afraid her baby might contract COVID-19 in a hospital, where he would have automatically received a birth certificate. Aislinn, who moved to Kyiv to study ballet at age 16, had a home birth last June. The reason behind the Hubbards’ desperate bid for freedom was maddeningly simple: Seraphim didn’t have a birth certificate.

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