Informative Essay On Immigration

How old are you? I would make a guess that you would answer with only one answer and that is your age. But for me it a choice that I have to make every time someone asks me the exact same question. I was born in a village call Zos Vaj Loog Tsua in Thailand and my parent never went to make a birth certificate for me during the time I was born. This isn’t a problem at first because of back them it doesn’t really matter if we have one or not. But all this change when my parent applies for immigration to the United States of America. Since my parent doesn't know English, they left all the paperwork to the register office worker to fill out. Somehow he/she was able to make my two older siblings along with me 2 years older than we should we really be and the best thing
They told me that I moved down because I was too immature for 6th grade and that the principal think it better to move me down to a grade within my mental age. And they also agree on dropping me down a few grade because then I have the benefit of restarting school from a lower grade. Being the obedience me, I didn’t argue and just say Okay. They also reveal to me that my real birthday is 11/05/1996 but my official age in the document is 11/05/1994. Which make me embarrass to reveal my age to anyone because my age is way older than my real one plus I was in a grade that is like 3 grade lower than what my age should have been on.
So from that moment on I start to make excuse whenever people ask about my age. I would continue lying that I don’t know my age even to the point when I get my citizenship; a part where I have to take the pledge of truth but I still lie that I don’t know.
Now I have got over my embarrassment and whenever someone asks for my age, I would always reply back. “Which ages?? My official age? Or My real age?” This would confuse many and would make me tell my stories all over again in order to clear the