7:19 Danah Harbi met her fiancé during a volunteer trip to work with Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Years later, they re still separated by the travel ban. Tyrone Turner/WAMU/DCist
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Danah Harbi s love story with her fiancé began with a trip to Lebanon in early 2016. The 38-year-old Syrian American flew to the country to provide aid to refugees, spurred to action by a viral image of a Syrian boy who drowned trying to cross from Turkey to Greece. Harbi and her brother boarded a flight to Beirut to deliver aid to refugee camps. As an optometrist, she brought suitcases full of gear to set up a clinic within the camps.
Travel Ban Repeal Gives Separated Families New Hope, But Reunification Will Take Time By Austin Landis Washington, D.C. PUBLISHED 4:20 PM ET Jan. 29, 2021 PUBLISHED 4:20 PM EST Jan. 29, 2021
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Mina Mahdavi’s son is three-and-a-half, but he’s still never had a sleepover with his grandma.
“We have a guest room, so one night they can,” she said. “That would be cool.”
Mahdavi has renewed hope that her mother, Parvin Chaichi, who lives in Iran, could soon spend time with her first grandchild. He was born in 2017, the year then-President Donald Trump banned travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, and she s only seen him once since then.
New Yorkers Celebrate Biden’s End to Trump’s ‘Muslim’ Travel Ban and Rally for More Change
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Thousands of New Yorkers moved closer to reuniting with loved ones after President Joe Biden repealed the Trump administration’s ban on travel to the United States from several countries where local residents have roots, including Yemen, Iran and Syria.
Hours after his inauguration on Wednesday, Biden signed an executive order that alleviated pain felt by immigrants and their families since the Trump move thrust them into limbo four years ago this month.
“We really need to get together,” said Nashwan Mozeb, 29, a bodega worker from Middle Village, Queens, whose wife lives within a warzone in Sanaa, Yemen.
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