I think that her words describe her predicament quite effectively: While participating in a language and culture study program in the USSR in 1981. I met and fell in love with a Soviet citizen. We were married. with the blessings of Soviet authorities arid in full accordance with Soviet laws. on June 29. 1981 in Leningrad. Since that day. my husband. Andrei Planson. has received six refusals for an exit visa to join me in the United States. I lived with my husband. at great professional sacrifice and expense. for a year. returning to the U.S. in the spring of 1983 to give birth to our son Nicholas. Father and son have never seen each other.