Juan Cifuentes and his family never knew when the call would come. For nine years, he, a sister and their parents waited in Pereira, Colombia, their hometown, outside Medellin. When he was 17, just after he finished high school, the approval for their visas came through. “It was challenging, but it was very, very exciting,” Mr. Cifuentes, 25, said of arriving in the United States in 2010. “Being an immigrant, you encounter things you never expect and feel things you don’t know about.

Source: New York Times January 07, 2019 17:15 UTC