Immigrant Experience Research Paper

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Usually people of my age would hesitate if they have to choose one from the memorable events that they have witnessed during their life. For me, there will be no hesitation. Even if my marriage was the most important event of all my life after the event of my birth, the event I am going to describe here is the most powerful and mesmerizing event to date in my life: the day I left my country for the first time and arrived in the United States of America.

When we started our application for immigration to the United States two years after my husband left me with our four children, for me everything seemed unreal. Even when we received our visas, after many appointments at the US Embassy of my country and countless medical visits for me and my kids, I was still not feeling like this will happen. I was in a continual state of denial, not believing that in a few days I will be taking the plane for the first time of my life, and will have to take care of my children aged from height to one year old during a one day travel from Yaoundé to JFK airport in New York.
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I found myself surrounded by my mother in law and brothers, sisters in law at the airport. My mom was the only one in my family to be aware of us traveling. It was such a big deal, traveling with all my children to the US that we had to keep it a secret for more than six months. Only my mother in law and one of my brothers in law knew about the preparations for the travel. All the others, including my own mother were informed just the day of