An Iranian family reunites at the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, which straddles the U.S.-Canada border in Stanstead, Quebec and in Derby Line, Vermont, U.S., November 3, 2018. Picture taken November 3, 2018. To match Insight USA-IMMIGRATION/BAN REUTERS/Yeganeh Torbati
DERBY LINE, VERMONT/STANSTEAD, QUEBEC (Reuters) - During the six-hour drive from New York City to a tiny town in northern Vermont, Iranian student Shirin Estahbanati cried at the thought of seeing her father for the first time in nearly three years. Since then, he had suffered a heart attack, and she hadn't dared leave America to comfort him.
But as she travelled north, she also couldn't stop worrying. What if she missed the turnoff and drove across the U.S.-Canadian border by mistake?
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