An arrangement has been made to provide free Non-Resident Nepali visa to the foreign nationals of Nepali origin, who have obtained Non-Resident Nepali Citizens and Non-Resident Identity Card, and their families for 10 years.

She used to view the U.S. as a “country of freedom, where people are not arrested based on how they look, and where those who are detained are treated fairly and with respect.” But the women she met did not deserve to be detained, she said. “Their only fault was to be South American.”