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Gabriel Pabogais headed back to America on90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way— much toIsabel Posada’s dismay.
On Sunday night’s episode, Gabe and Isabel were unable to get a marriage license in her native Colombia without Gabe’s birth certificate reading “male.” Because Gabe is transgender, he didn’t yet have the correct papers (up to this point after his transition, he’d been happy just to live authentically, so he never took the proper steps to update his documentation).
That turned out to be a big hurdle for their walk to the altar — and meant Gabe was even more likely to have to leave Colombia for up to a year or risk breaking immigration law.
Isabel told cameras she was “devastated” to think of being “alone again” if Gabe couldn’t return to Colombia.
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She was also growing frustrated with Gabe, telling him: “You should have all the information because it’s important. It’s not a vaccine or a pill, it’s a surgery that’s very important — that changed your whole life.”
Gabe countered, “In the United States I never used my birth certificate.”
“Then stay in the United States,” Isabel shot back.
Gabe replied, “All my life, I never knew I would live in Colombia.”
By the end of the episode, Isabel and Gabe had made up — but he stil had to return to the U.S. to procure the correct documents. So Isabel dropped Gabe at the airport, unsure of when she’d see him next.
There was also the matter of telling his skeptical family about the engagement. As he headed back to the States, Gabe braced to defend his fast-moving relationship to his loved ones.
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90 Day Fiancé: The Other Wayairs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on TLC.
source: people.com
