Anna immigrated to the United States from China. She is now 49 years old and has been in the country for approximately 25 years. Here, she remembers all the paperwork she had to complete in order to immigrate to the United States:
The only thing that comes to my mind when I think of immigrating here are papers. There are papers for everything. I had to travel to the big city to get the papers and every time there were new documents I had to travel and get someone to help me fill them out. They asked for everything. I felt like I was pouring my life out to a bunch of random strangers I didn’t know. And they were all important too! I was so scared that if I had written something wrong, my application would be denied.”
