A little orphan from Haiti has secured six more months in the United States as doctors in Minnesota try to treat a potentially deadly heart condition.
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The girl, Rose Nacheca, was brought to the United States this month on a 10-day visa by the Freshwater Church in St. Bonifacious just west of Minneapolis so that doctors could figure out what was wrong with her, but they were running out of time.
Rose looks like a typical healthy baby, but she's actually 3 years old and is at the weight of an 8-month-old child.
"If we send her back to Haiti and she has congenital heart disease, she will die in that place," said Dan Sorenson, a member of the church who brought Rose to Minnesota.
On Friday, Sorenson took Rose to the Customs and Border Patrol terminal at the airport in hopes of renewing her visa. They got their wish.
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SOURCE: Fox News
