Action News first spoke with Emanet in February 2025 after his parents were arrested by ICE agents at the family's restaurant in Haddon Township, New Jersey.
They were both eventually released, but Emanet said their immigration cases are still pending. His father's next hearing is set for December, while his mother is set to go before a judge again in April 2027.
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"It's been an absolute rollercoaster of emotions," Emanet told Action News on Tuesday afternoon.
The Emanet family moved to the U.S. from Turkey in 2008 on a religious worker's visa.
When that expired, Emanet's father applied for a green card. But he said his family has been waiting for approval ever since.
"At the end of the day, it's not in our control," he explained. "But what we try to control every single day is the steadiness of our family, our business, our community."
Over the past 15 months, the community has embraced the Emanet family and their restaurant, which they moved to a bigger location in Collingswood late last year.
Emanet, who serves as CEO of the business, says he now faces the possibility of being deported.
He is married to a U.S. citizen, and the couple has two American children. He told Action News he was about to get his green card approved.
However, in May, the Trump administration issued a sweeping policy directive requiring most temporary visa holders and humanitarian parolees living in the U.S. to return to their home countries to apply for and complete their green card applications.
Immigration lawyers told ABC News the new policy could impact hundreds of thousands of people with temporary work visas who are pursuing permanent residency from within the United States.
Emanet questioned, "What if they actually send me back to Turkey, and I have to stay there for years and years waiting on them to update my status that I have already been waiting on for years in America already?"
He now has a deadline of Thursday, July 2 to submit documentation to immigration officials about himself, his family, and his business in order to prove his immigration status should be updated.
Community members are now stepping in to help by writing letters on his behalf.
Isis Williams, the board president of the Haddon Township Equity Initiative, told Action News, "Muhammed is known in the community as the person who takes food to those in need, who opens his door, who has always offered a helping hand. The community is doing the same now that there's a need for him."