Immigration Process: Two-Month-Old Nasteha and Ruth Beardsley

immigration process: Mohammad made the decision to travel to Canada with five of her children and leave two-month-old Nasteha with Mohammad's sister, Ebla, denying that she had any family left back home, according to CBC. She was scared that if she told them the truth, they would send her back to Kenya, said Mohammed's eldest daughter, Sofiya, who acted as a translator. But during the immigration process, Mohammad became pregnant with her sixth child, Nasteha, and feared that trying to bring her along could ruin her application and undo all of the work she had put in so far. Ruth Beardsley, a social worker with Options Community Services in Surrey, said she couldn't believe that this had happened. As a mother myself, I could just understand how difficult a decision that must have been. My heart immediately went out to her, said Beardsley. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.