![]() ![]() It’s not like Congress hasn’t thought about this. Still, even for them, the path to being recognized as an American is almost impossible-blocked by bureaucratic immigration processes and legislative obstacles, which, for Filipino Amerasians in particular, can feel especially unfair. Some Amerasians, thanks to the internet and advances in DNA-testing technology, have reconnected with long lost dads who are supportive of their efforts to become a U.S. But when she decided to ask him for help, noting that she was midway through a nursing attendant degree but would soon have to drop out because she couldn’t afford tuition, he replied: “Please do not think that I am a knight in shining armor who going to ride in and rescue you.” A few months later, Levante was told by her father’s wife in the U.S. ![]() Levante says her biological father, a sailor from Belfair, Washington, who left Subic for good in 1981, was sympathetic at first to her life story. ![]()
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