The Gujarat native had been living in Oklahoma with her younger son.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday promised to help a 90-year-old Indian American woman Kantaben Shah, who doesn’t wish to go back to the United States. Swaraj has assured that the nonagenarian woman via a tweet on Monday that won’t have to leave her motherland – India.
According to a Times of India report, Kantaben Shah, a native of Gujarat, had been living in Oklahoma with her younger son, until last November. Shah was sent to Ahmedabad with an expired Indian visa and was allowed into India on a short-term 72-hour visa.
The Foreign Regional Registration Officer gave Shah an ultimatum on January 12 and asked her to appear before it as soon as possible after arranging a plane ticket to the US.
Kantaben wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting him to prevent her from forcibly being sent back to the US.
“I was born in India and spent the entire life in Ahmedabad. I went to the US with my eldest son and on insistence of my younger son, I obtained American citizenship. Unfortunately, due to best reasons known to him, my younger son has sent me back to India even without checking my valid visa,” she wrote.
Kantiben added that she just doesn’t want to go back to Oklahoma where she has “no one to talk to” and wants to spend her last years in her motherland.
“Kanta Ben will not have to leave India. We will resolve this for good,” Sushma Swaraj tweeted last night.
Kantaben who remains mostly confined to her bed, currently stays in her elder son Jayesh Shah’s house in Paldi and the union ministers tweet came as a boon to her.
Social Media Updates:
Kanta Ben will not have to leave India. We will resolve this for good. https://t.co/bV0dD9VSkD
— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) January 30, 2017
Thanks for bringing this to my notice. We will help her. https://t.co/bV0dD9VSkD
— Sushma Swaraj (@SushmaSwaraj) January 29, 2017