Mo was an immigrant applying for permanent residency who needed a suit for his interview and called at the Gregory Pope Foundation charity shop one morning. Fortunately for him, Nina Lucas was helping out in lieu of her uncle Roy Cropper who was at a bat watch. When Mo saw a suit going for £20, he pleaded with permanent volunteer Evelyn Plummer if he could have the garment on the outside rail for £10 as his unspecified interview was very important. She refused and it was Nina who stepped in and supplied the other half. Mo insisted on paying her back later and she told him that she could be found at Roy's Rolls.
Later on in the day, he turned up at the cafe to repay the money in front of a purse-lipped Evelyn. Nina asked him how the interview had gone, and he revealed that it had been with the immigration authorities and had been hard-going for him. Sat at a nearby table was Kurdish refugee Daryan Zahawi who overheard and sympathised with his experience. The two got chatting and Daryan found out that Mo had been in the same processing centre as his brother Haider whose whereabouts he had been trying to find. Daryan was able to contact his sibling and find out that he was now in Nottingham. After several months of living in Weatherfield, under the protective wing of Maria Connor and Gary Windass, Daryan was able to move to Nottingham and be reunited with his family.