I was born on 8 November 1969 in Phan Rang Hospital. Before 1968 my mother, Huynh Thi Cuc, was married to a Vietnamese Soldier of the ARVN stationed in Gia Lai Province. She had a daughter with this man. In 1968 my mother started working for the US Air Force as an interpreter at Thanh Son- Thap Cham Air Field. Location 35 TH. USAF Dispensary, Phan Rang Air Base.

My mother had been working for a number of Americans before she met my father (Nickname - Boss Beo, and he was a Dentist with the rank of Major). In 1969 one week after meeting my father, my mother attended a party with my father. She stayed overnight with him. The following day my father moved to another place that my mother did not know. Later my mother told everything to Mr. Robert Lawrence Seaver, born on 29 September 1929, another American working in the same office. This man was unable to find my father. By 1972 all American servicemen had left Phan Rang Air Base. In the same year my mother stopped working at Phan Rang Air Base.

In 1973 a civilian company named Camp John Holloway took charge of the air field, and she worked as a nurse.

In 1975 our family moved to Phu Quy Village, about 10 Kilometers from Thap Cham Town. Life became very hard and we had to plant grapes, rice, sweet potatoes and other things.

My mother's husband came home and lived with her. Four years later, in 1976 my mother gave birth to another child, my half brother. I also started going to school, and I used to study in the mornings and have all afternoon free. I would go selling ice tea and snacks to passengers on long distance buses. After grade nine, 1985, I quit school, because I was not admitted to grade 10. For one year I had to go on selling snacks and ice tea. I also reviewed my 9th grade program.

In 1986 I was admitted to grade 10. By the end of grade 11, I was elected Miss Beauty of the School and this success made me proud to be an AmerAsian. When I was in grade 12, I won the title of Miss Ninh Thuan. After my graduation from high school, I successfully passed the entrance examination for Ninh Thuan Teachers School.

At that time I was eager to become a teacher. For me it is a noble career, but when the Board of the Teachers School found out that I was AmerAsian, they would not let me attend school. That is why I learned how to be a seamstress and make clothes. However, I could not earn a living in this trade because the people in my neighborhood were to poor to have clothes made. When students did not have money to pay for the tailor charge, I offered to make the uniform free.

In 1990 I applied for the AmerAsian Program and in 1991 I had a pre-interview. As everything was OK my family and I were sent to a transitional house in Dam Sen. One week later we got our interview. My application was accepted and I was told to go to our hometown and wait.

In 1992 we had another interview. According to the Vietnamese Interpreter, I had no picture of my father and no evidence proving that I am AmerAsian. Our case was transferred to the ODP Program because my mother had been working for the Americans for over 4 years. We got a new case number, IV 318788.

In 2002 my cousin, who is AmerAsian also, introduced me to Mrs. Phuong Watts. She asked Mr. Haines, in America, to find my father. Mr. Haines did find Mr. Seaver's wife. Later she sent my mother letters, telling her that she knew my mother's story, through her late husband. She also asked the other Americans who had worked in my mother's office to write to my mother.

That is why my mother is in possession of pictures showing herself beside Mr. Seaver and other Americans working in the same office. These same Americans found papers pertaining to my mother and sent them to her.

In 2003, I sent to the Consulate all of this evidence; including picture of my father, letters of my mother's friends and a new application. On 31 March 2004, I received a rejection letter from the Consulate.