By Juan Carlos Chavez, Tampa Bay Times

TAMPA, Fla. — Yordanka Rumayor said she paid $18,000 to an immigration service in Tampa that promised temporary permits or humanitarian parole and legal representation for her family. But the paperwork, she said, was never filed.

María Victoria Abio La Rosa said she paid the same service $15,000 for applications for herself, her husband and her son. After months of believing their legal struggles were over, she was told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that her family remains in limbo.

The two Cubans , who crossed the southern border with their families in recent years, are among a long list of immigrants who said they trusted Dayana Barreto García and her Tampa firm, García SM Immigration Service, to help them secure documents and vi

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