New Delhi, Dec. 6 -- "I am exhausted but I am smiling and trying to be calm, because I need to find a way to reach home," said Sanjay Rabari as he spent countless hours on Friday outside Terminal 3 of Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport trying to find a way home before his son's birthday on December 6.

"I have only seen my son in photos and videos. Tomorrow, he will turn two and I came to India especially for his birthday," said Rabari, who has spent the last two-and-a-half years away from his home while working as a security officer in Canada.

Rabari took his first flight from Detroit, Michigan to Heathrow, London, following which he arrived in Delhi on Friday morning with a final leg of the journey to Ahmedabad remaining...