May Quan Tsang, My Grandmother's Journey Part 2

When my aunt Dorothy died, my cousin April gave me a folder of old documents labeled “Coming Back to US”, and “Mom coming back to US”.  I love to see my Aunt’s handwriting.  It was thrilling to open the folder and see letters on Congress of the United States, House of Representatives stationary.  There were several letters from Aunt Dorothy’s congressman, Arthur G. Klein, Member of Congress starting from 1950.

Just as thrilling was to find my Aunts, Uncles and Father’s depositions, testifying to the fact that they are natural born US citizens, and that they nor my Grandmother are Communists, believe in communism, nor would my Grandmother seek Welfare.  The interesting thing though that I found as well was that the family received loans from the Department of State, Emergency Loan section.  In those days returning immigrants could get a loan (my two aunts received a loan for $800 to come back to SF from HK) back in 1948 or so.