{"id":780077,"date":"2026-07-23T15:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780077\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:33:10","slug":"doctor-sues-to-return-to-maine-after-months-stranded-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/780077\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor sues to return to Maine after months stranded in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A family doctor in northern Maine has been stranded in Canada since April and is suing the federal government in an effort to return home.<\/p>\n<p>In the lawsuit, the physician is identified by the pseudonym &#8220;Doctor Afshar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Afshar is a Canadian-Iranian citizen who lives legally in Presque Isle on an H-1B visa.<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawsuit, she briefly crossed the Fort Fairfield port of entry in April to obtain a passport stamp needed to renew her driver&#8217;s license.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, she says she was detained for 10 hours and has since been denied reentry into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Afshar has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to reunite with her husband, 12-year-old daughter and the patients who rely on her medical care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family doctor in northern Maine has been stranded in Canada since April and is suing the federal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-780077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}