US President Donald Trump recently temporarily barred travellers from Yemen, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya and Somalia from entering the United States (US).
A four-month-old Iranian girl with a heart condition was unable to make her appointment for open heart surgery at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) due to US President Donald Trump's travel ban on seven countries including Iran, claims her family.
On January 27, Trump signed an executive order barring people from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia from entering the US for 90 days.
In an interview, the girl's uncle Sam Taghizadeh, who has lived in the US for 13 years, explained the hardship his family faced obtaining a US visa and their disappointment at her being unable to receive the care she requires.
“For getting the visa, they ask for lot of the paperwork. You have to do many things, you know. For three weeks we working for every single thing they wanted. All the paper, everything was ready, and just in the last minute they cancelled everything,” Taghizadeh told randomnews.com.
The family was concerned by the kind of medical service the child, Fatemah, would receive in her own country and so decided to have the surgery at OHSU for its quality. "Over there (Iran) it's a very high risk because that is open heart surgery," Taghizadeh told KPTV.
After receiving the visa, the family headed to Dubai where they were told they could not complete their travel to the US because of Trump's executive order. The child is now back in Iran. Taghizadeh describes the situation as a "nightmare" and still does not know how to proceed.
He questions his own choice to live in the US. "Why we came to US, we came here for freedom. For a better life. I'm feeling nowhere is safe," said Taghizadeh.
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