Migratory authorities grant “voluntary exit” from the US to the brother of former Melody González Pedraza

Miami, United States. – Ruber González Pedraza, brother of the former Cuban Melody González Pedraza, received a voluntary exit order from an immigration judge of Miami. This means that it is allowed to leave the United States by its own means and within a term without imposing a deportation order.

Ruber González Pedraza remains detained at the Krome Immigrant Detention Center, in Florida, as recorded in two official records consulted by Cubanet: he Automated case information system (Eoir) and the ICE detainees locator.

According to the file at the Eoir, the judicial decision was adopted this September 18 in Miami. In addition, there is “the immigration judge granted the voluntary exit” and that “There are no future audiences for this case.”

The Eoir system also sets a deadline to challenge the failure: “An appeal resort expires on October 20, 2025”.

In parallel, the ICE detainees locator He shows that Ruber González Pedraza is “in ICE custody.”

The situation of the detainee has generated public attention because it is the brother of Melody González Pedraza, Cuban formerness indicated by activists for issuing convictions in political causes. According to Martí NewsRuber González Pedraza entered the United States in 2024 through the program of parole humanitarian. The media also indicates that, although the judge granted him the voluntary exit, a deportation order already weighed on him.

As found Cubanetin his time as a student Ruber González Pedraza administered A blog Dedicated to repubicating official materials in favor of the release of the five Cuban spies (of the Wasp Network) convicted in the United States.

The Eoir electronic file – which is publicly accessible to verify procedural status – does not show future audiences and marks the deadline for appeal for October 20, 2025, which implies that, if Ruber González Pedraza decides to resort, the presentation must be made before that date before the Immigration Appeals Board (BIA). Until then, and according to the ICE registration, González Pedraza will continue in custody in Krome.

Martí News Identify the Cuban as a graduate of the University of Computer Science (UCI) in 2011.

According to the same medium, before leaving Cuba, the computer scientist would have eliminated his social networks and who worked in a bank until he managed his trip under the program of parole humanitarian.