After long years of trying to find someone from my husbands family we were successful in our efforts--we found that my husbands only sister was alive and living in Israel. She was waiting to see us. at last. in the land of our forefathers. Yet. at the time of our receival of the visas our son had already finished his army service. He was not allowed to leave as. according to the Soviet law. he had to stay in the Soviet Union for three years after his discharge from the army. It was also stated that he allegedly had access to secret informationdespite the fact that he served as a private. working as a sanitation technician.