“DREAMERS": How Do You Define American?

1,293 views · Published 6 September 2017 · 1:34 · Indexed 17 October 2026

Channel: Human Rights Watch · 2017 · News & Politics

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Angie and Peter Kim came to the United States from South Korea with their parents when they were 9 and 7 years old respectively. According to them, their grandmother, a US citizen, had petitioned for their family, they said, but after years of waiting due to a backlog of visas, she died just before they could complete the process. When their father became a permanent resident through marriage to a US citizen, he and Peter became permanent residents. Peter is now a US citizen, but Angie was over 21 years old at the time and could not gain legal status.

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