Nicole Antoine surveys the ruins of her mother's home in Haiti. (CBC)A Montreal woman who managed to find her mother alive in the rubble of Haiti can't bring her back home with her right away.

Nicole Antoine is afraid her mother, Rose, will die before she can fill out the necessary paperwork. Her mother is not a Canadian citizen.

Antoine said officials at the Canadian Embassy in Port-Au-Prince told her she will have to return to Canada alone, and then complete the paperwork before her mother can enter the country.

"I can't come back here to do anything else for my mother — she has to leave with me. So, what am I going to do? I don't know what to do," Nicolle Antoine said Tuesday.

She is frustrated by the delay because her two sisters were killed in the earthquake, and there is no one to look after her mother.

"They're going to call me next week and tell me that my mother's dead, that I have to come back and bury her," Antoine said.

Federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced in Montreal on Monday that Ottawa will fast-track certain immigration applications.

But members of Montreal's Haitian community say Canada is not doing enough to help Haitians leave their earthquake-ravaged homeland.