Sama Ebrahimi Bajgani wanted to build a life in America.

Now, she grieves as she and her fiancé, Alireza Doroudi, prepare to return to Iran after he was held in a detention facility for 42 days.

“I feel relieved for Alireza. He didn’t deserve to stay that long in that facility and be treated like this,” Bajgani said.

“I am not happy about the whole thing that happened to us and I need time to grieve for what l am going to put behind and leave. All the dreams, friendships and dreams we had with each other to build a life in (the U.S.) It’s a sad day for America.”

Doroudi, a doctoral student at the University of Alabama, has been in federal custody since ICE agents showed up at his Tuscaloosa apartment around 3 a.m. on March 25.

“I was living a normal life until that night. After that nothing is just normal,” Bajgani recently told The Associated Press.

“I didn’t deserve this. If they had just sent me a letter asking me to appear in court, I would’ve come, because I didn’t do anything illegal. I stayed with their permission,” Doroudi said in a letter he dictated to Bajgani over the phone to provide his perspective to others. “What was the reason for throwing me in jail?”

Bajgani has said the days following Doroudi’s his detainment “were some of hardest and most overwhelming I’ve ever experienced.”

Bajgani also spoke out before Donald Trump came to address UA graduates.

“I’m just really ashamed that the University of Alabama can be so silent about Alireza and at the same time celebrate all the other things that are just very minimal compared to what happens to Alireza and what happens to the community around him,” Bajgani, who is also a doctoral student at UA, told AL.com at the time.

On Thursday, Doroudi asked a judge to grant him voluntary deportation back to Iran, according to his attorney David Rozas.

“He turned and looked at me and said: ‘I love this country, but they don’t want me here so I will go home,’” attorney David Rozas told AL.com.

Rozas said the decision will allow Doroudi to avoid “prolonged and unnecessary detention,” as the immigration judge sought additional hearings in Doroudi’s case.

Doroudi was first held at the Pickens County Jail and then transferred to federal custody in Jena, La.

Following his arrest, the Department of Homeland Security put out at a statement alleging that Doroudi was a “national security” concern.

“ICE HSI made this arrest in accordance with the State Department’s revocation of Doroudi’s student visa. This individual posed significant national security concerns,” a DHS spokesperson has previously said.

On April 17, Judge Maithe González denied Doroudi’s bond saying he failed to meet the burden of showing that he was not a threat to national security.

González also ruled Doroudi was a flight risk due to being in the country with a revoked F-1 visa, no family in the country and what she said were scarce ties to the community.