Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Passing U.S. citizenship requirements a difficult challenge for older refugees


Khin Shwe, a refugee from Burma, now called Myanmar, was 68 when she was resettled by the U.S. State Department to the United States in 2008. She first lived in Ohio but later moved to Fort Wayne to join her daughter, who is married with three children. She has been trying to learn English since she arrived.
“It is very hard,” Shwe said through an interpreter, Nyein Chan, who is refugee resettlement coordinator for the Fort Wayne office of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. She is working now on learning the alphabet.
Contact Darren Heyman, immigration attorney Las Vegas, for more information. 

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