Evaristo Salas Jr.

I just knew I had the desire to get there.

And I knew, I knew if I had that, that I can make it happen.

making it happen, like I said, I had to get out and I had to kind of fill out all the paperwork.

I had to get all my paperwork situated first, which was, it was a battle in itself, you know.

And even the process of getting my passport, they didn't, they kind of sent me a bunch of stuff back saying, they basically didn't believe who I was.

They were like, you know, we need more information.

And they said, we need things that are five, six years old, you know, tax returns, all that stuff.

There was a confusing moment and then I was thinking like, oh, and I kind of stressed out and I was like, well, I'm just going to tell them straight out, look.

And then I just sent them

six, seven different news articles from different places showing that I was exonerated.

I wrote them letters.

Look, I was exonerated.

I've been in prison for the past 27 years.

I can't produce this and this is the reason why.

But I got my driver's license.

I got all this stuff, but this is why it's so brand new.

I sent them that stuff and I was thinking that maybe they were going to kind of

Still act a certain way, but then they didn't call me a week later and they were just like, okay, it makes sense now.

And just so you know, how do you want your name on your passport?

As soon as they said that, I was like, oh, that's great.