Now she is under lock and key in Costa Rica, along with hundreds of other migrants expelled by the United States to third countries in Central America.
A fourth country -- El Salvador -- took a group of Venezuelans and jailed them in a maximum-security prison after the United States claimed, without providing evidence, that they are gang members.
All said they feared for their lives in their homeland.
Her husband Mohammad Asadi, 31, who ran a construction company back home, was threatened by the Taliban for selling materials to American companies.
Alireza Salimivir, a 35-year-old Iranian Christian, said he and his wife face a similar fate.
Tropical limbo
Citing pressure from “our economically powerful brother to the north,“ Costa Rica said it had agreed to collaborate in the “repatriation of 200 illegal immigrants to their country.”
The rest are in limbo.
“We can’t go back, nor can we stay here. We don’t know the culture and don’t speak Spanish,“ said Marwa, who said she wanted to be close to relatives “in Canada, the United States or Europe.”
German Smirnov, a 36-year-old Russian former election official, said he fled to the United States with his wife and six-year-old son after flagging up fraud in last year's presidential election.
If returned to Vladimir Putin’s Russia, he said: “They will give me two options, sit in prison or go to war (in Ukraine).”
But they were never given the chance to file an asylum claim. Instead, they were detained and flown to Costa Rica 18 days later.
Smirnov said they treated the migrants, including women and children, “like scum.”
At the Costa Rican facility, the group said they were well fed and allowed to use their cell phones, but their passports had been seized by the police.
“This is a very serious setback for Costa Rica,“ he told AFP.
Michael Garcia Bochenek, children’s rights counsel at Human Rights Watch, warned Costa Rica in a statement against being “complicit in flagrant US abuses.”
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