White House help sought over man forced to return to Brazil after marriage to U.S. citizen. Tim Coco is in his Haverhill, Mass., office, talking with his husband, Genesio Januario Oliveira Jr. via a ...

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HAVERHILL — The journey to marriage for Genesio Oliveira and Tim Coco began in the torment, abuse and rape Oliveira suffered as a teenager growing up in Brazil, which remains one of the most dangerous ...

Tim Coco and Genesio Oliveira were legally married in Massachusetts in 2005, but are just now starting their life together after immigration issues kept them apart for years. Coco lived in ...

The Obama administration let the clock run out Oct. 23 on helping a Brazilian man who wants to return to Massachusetts to live with his U.S. husband. Tim Coco and Brazilian Genesio Oliveira married in ...

HAVERHILL — One yellow ribbon is wound around the front door of Tim Coco's Woodrow Avenue home. Another swirls down the porch railing and meets the front walk. The ribbons went up Aug. 12, 2008, when ...