“[I feel] a lot more at ease about his situation,” Alex Boota ‘15 said. “[I’m] looking forward to seeing him again, seeing him at school, backing into our old lives.”

A Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator, Guerrero-Meneses has been working on a documentary about his experiences. Boota, who has collaborated with Guerrero-Meneses on an immigration-related documentary before, will help out with the project, Boota said.

Tuesday’s development was not the first time Guerrero-Meneses has caught national headlines in recent weeks. In late September, he wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post headlined “I told Harvard I was an undocumented immigrant. They gave me a full scholarship.” It has received close to 1,000 comments to date.

Guerrero-Meneses said he first notified Harvard of his being unable to reenter the country late in the summer by contacting acting Leverett House Dean Bilal A. Malik. Afterwards, through a friend, he was put in touch with Klein, who specializes in immigration law.

“There has to be a better system to streamline situations like Dario, and there has to be a better way for it to happen,” Klein said on Tuesday.

Given the events of the last several months, Guerrero-Meneses said he is not sure whether he will return to Mexico or not after he comes back to the U.S.

“I don’t know how I would feel coming back here, because I don’t want to think about my mom’s passing, but then it was a transformative experience,” he said. “Kind of like in the movies when the guy goes up in to the mountains and becomes a hermit and comes down a hero.”

“I feel like I’m coming down, descending the mountain with a lot of new lessons learned,” he added.

Guerrero-Meneses said he expects to be back at Harvard in January.

“To my friends,” he said, “I don’t know man, see you guys in a few weeks.”

—Staff writer Matthew Q. Clarida can be reached at matthew.clarida@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @MattClarida.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

CORRECTION: October 14, 2014

An earlier version of the headline of this article incorrectly stated Dario Guerrero-Meneses' Harvard grade level. In fact, he is a junior.