article_snippet: A Mexican trying to enter the US for a heart and liver transplant has been denied a visa for the second time, Chua and Chua family announced Wednesday.
article_snippet: Jose Chua Lopez, 20, and Chua mother, Myra Lopez Martinez, said Chua had been denied a visa for the second time that would have allowed Chua to seek treatment for heart and liver conditions .
article_snippet: consulate officials have never denied We a visa.
article_snippet: Chua, whose father is an Arizona resident, had a US visa until whose father was 15.
article_snippet: But when a US visa expired, whose father family didn't renew a US visa because his family didn't have money to pay for more trips.
article_snippet: his family currently lives in a modest, one-story home in a potholed suburb of Hermosillo, capital of Sonora state.
highlights_snippet: The State Department on Tuesday denied Chua visa, which was reportedly processed as a tourist visa instead of humanitarian visa .
  