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I have aunts in China (Mom's Sisters) still have an application waiting to be processed. Mom petitioned for them when she got citizenship... Like 10 years ago... still being processed... and now with recent politics, that might never get approved... I mean they just added 75 countries to the ban list, they could add China next.
My Maternal Grandmother got approved much faster, just 1 year after mom got citizenship, so she's here with us now, recently just got citizenship.
Dad is still a PRC national tho... English is hard. Kinda feae my dad would get snatched by ICE one day... Grandmother had like dementia or something so they allowed her to skip the English test. Honestly I'm kinda afraid grandmother will accidentally leave the stove on one day and forger about it and gets us all killed in a fire... π (electric stove, but still)
I never had a friend to share all this story with so... I feel like I had to share it here...
(yay, forever alone in this world cuz nobody wanna be my friend... not "American" enough to fit in, also not "Chinese" enough to feel confident to talk to those Mandarin speakers... π)