The research paper is an attempt to study how in her The Immigrant, Manju Kapur aims to showthe transformationofacharacter’s identity from her immigrant cum diasporic existence to a ‘new woman’. Change in cultural identity has its manyfacetsandthe novel in this regard is about the plight of an Indian woman- Nina. Nina’s marriage to an NRI dentist Ananda, thenumerouschallenges during the procedure of immigration and the struggle to settle down in an entirely new country are some of theissuesraisedin The Immigrant by Manju Kapur. At the end of the novel, Nina becomes a new woman, totally different fromwhat she hadbeenbeforeher marriage in India. Many factors are responsible for changes in her personality. Immigrants change their personality becausetheyhaveto be baptized by the pressure of postcolonial ideology. By highlighting the tribulations of relocated immigrants the narrator focusesonthe disturbing ordeal through which they pass. Nina soon adapts to the new culture and the new life style. Nina’s transformationfromadocile wife to a liberated woman and denunciation of her emotionless bond with her dentist husband are the chief concerns of thenovel.Keywords : Migration, Rootlessness, Tribulation Transformation, Identity Crisis