LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A husband is in mourning and experiencing frustration as he claims the United States is preventing him from entering the country to manage his wife’s affairs after her passing in Nevada.

Gloria Vega Nava, aged 41, succumbed to injuries she sustained in a car accident during the Fourth of July holiday, as stated by the Clark County Coroner’s Office.

Her husband, Evaristo Vega, lives in Tijuana, Mexico.

“She was everything to us. She was everything to us. She basically became the head of the family, you know?” Vega said. 

The accident took place on Saturday, July 5, near Moapa. Vega was informed that his wife and another passenger in the vehicle were seriously injured. He mentioned that she was employed at a warehouse in Las Vegas.

“She was in a bad condition. She suffered a very bad accident and very bad injury on the brain,” Vega said.

The Clark County Coroner’s Office confirmed to Nexstar’s KLAS that Vega Nava died three days after the crash at a local hospital. The manner and cause are pending at this time. 

Evaristo Vega’s next step is to get his wife’s body out of the Clark County Coroner’s Office for a burial. The problem is he can’t cross the border. 

Vega self-deported from the United States in 2017 to Mexico and was waiting for the 10-year ban to be over before he could start the process of applying to enter. He was only two years away. 

“I was trying to do anything. Anything to go see her, to be with my kids, you know? I wasn’t trying to do anything illegal,” Vega said. 

Vega said his application for an emergency visa through the United States embassy in Tijuana was denied.

For now, he says all he can do is pray the embassy changes its mind as he plans to reapply.