Anjali Mehta’s life was turned upside down after immigration officials deported her husband back to his homeland, Bangladesh.

Now, Mehta, 23, an American citizen who was born in India, has to work more than 60 hours to make ends meet and pay back loans to relatives. A student at Queens College, Mehta ekes a living doing hair and secretarial work for a Manhattan physician.

Mehta’s life is similar to that of thousands of immigrants who have had their households disrupted after the mother or father was deported because of various immigration law violations.

According to Virginia Kais, a spokeswoman for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement of Homeland Security, about 235,000 people have been deported. And so relatives in the United States are left to dream that somehow this injustice will be righted by new immigration bill.

Mehta’s husband, Naim Hossen, was deported in 2004. The couple fell in love while they were students at Borough of Manhattan Community College and despite their different background, they rose above it all. They married and were living happily when Hossen was deported.

The couple communicates through emails. Mehta remains steadfast in her resolve to unite with her husband. “Still I have kept his love in my memory and I will wait for him until he returns,” she said.

Mehta said her husband came to the United States when he was 10 years old. After 14 years here, Bangladesh is now a foreign land to him and she fears that he will have trouble readjusting to his homeland.

Hossen caught the attention of immigration officials after his father sought asylum along with his family and was denied in 1997. Three years later, a judge ordered a date for their voluntary departure and the family appealed to the Board of Immigration Appeal to reconsider the decision. That appeal was denied as well in 2002. They appealed again to the Second Circuit Court. The Circuit Court retained the order of the lower court and by default, they became illegal under the law.

After his marriage to Mehta, Hossen applied for an adjustment of his status because his wife was an American citizen. But he failed to take any measure to withdraw the order of deportation against him. That was his undoing.