Taahir Shaikh needed headshots for his new job, so he set up an appointment with a photographer named Ward Sakeik. One appointment turned into three photo shoots, and the two just kept talking.

Three years later, the newlywed couple was elated to go on their honeymoon.

But after spending nine days in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the couple’s trip ended with Sakeik, 22, being detained for what has become months in several U.S. immigration detention centers.

Sakeik, whose family is from Gaza but is legally stateless, has lived in the U.S. since she was 8, when her family travelled to the U.S. on a tourist visa and applied for asylum, according to her husband. While she was issued a deportation order more than a decade ago, Sakeik was permitted to stay in the U.S. under what’s known as an “order of supervision,” in which she regularly checked in with federal immigration authorities and is permitted work authorization, according to her lawyer and husband.

At the St. Thomas Airport, as the couple prepared to return home on Feb. 11, Sakeik was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection — and has been held in custody in the months since.