Word: jaramilloã
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...Laura Jaramillo ’10-’11, this anxiety came sooner. Jaramillo??€™s family left Colombia when she was 12 years old. As an employee of a national telephone company, her father worked to cut off the communications of imprisoned officers of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. He began receiving phone threats from the rebel group. They heard of people they knew getting kidnapped. The family fled to the U.S. to apply for political asylum, a process that was drawn out over eight years...
During this time, Jaramillo had gone to high school, applied to college, and spent two years at Harvard. Finally, during her sophomore spring, Jaramillo??€™s family had their final court hearing. Their case was denied...
...Jaramillo??€™s only legal option to complete her Harvard education was to go back to Colombia and apply for a student visa. Even though Jaramillo was uncertain about her chances of obtaining such a visa—it would be difficult to prove the required intent to return to her home country after having done most of her growing up in the U.S.—it was worth the risk...
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