Since I don’t know who you are I am going to write this as I am the person you know. Give me a name and an arrival date. If you are an immigrant you can use first person.
America the great melting pot, the land of the free, the land of opportunity, and the land of prosperity. This is how people from other countries view America, especially if they have experienced poverty in their country.
I met, choose your name, a Negro, that is what we are called in our country, an immigrant from choose your country. She related to me that before she came to America, she dreamed of America. She has four siblings, two brothers and two sisters. My father had a sister living in Florida who decided that she would sponsor the whole family to America. To start the process my aunt had to fill out an application form for visa and send it to the immigration office that services her state, immigration offices are demographically located, with the filing fees. In about two weeks the immigration sent her an official letter stating that it received her application. Now she waits for about six months before she hears from them again.
The process has begun and the next step is the processing fee. Immigration required from us a background check for everyone in our family who is over the age of eighteen. . After that was done we sent the sealed records to my aunt who sent them to the immigration office. When that is complete she has to send proof that she is a working person and can afford to support us when we arrive in America. When that is satisfied she had to pay another fee for the processing of the visas. As soon as that fee is received the immigration sent dates for us to go to the doctor for a physical, and a date to go for an interview at the American embassy in our country. The interview was successful, and we were given sealed envelopes with our visas to take to America.
In America, everything was new to us. Unlike Bulosan we experienced minimal prejudice. Every now and then a white person would snub us, but so do people from other culture. Eventually my parents bought a house in a nice neighborhood, we bothered no one and no one bothered us. My siblings and I went to college and so far we cannot say that we were denied jobs or any other kind of service because of our color.
America is still her dream and today she enjoys the good life and opportunity that America has given her. Now she is a naturalized Americaand her dream was not an elusive dream; still agrees that America is the land of the free, the land of opportunity, and the land of prosperity.
