“We were very happy. My mom was ecstatic,” said Sharon Adams, one of Helen’s daughters, told ABC. “The doctors were very happy because it’s very hard to find a match, and especially a 100 percent match.”
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That joy didn’t last long.have been rejected by American embassy staff. The reason given for the denials was that the officials didn’t believe that Thuy would return to Vietnam even though Thuy is leaving behind money, property and her 5-year-old child.
The Huynh family fled Vietnam because the father of the family fought alongside the U.S. Army. In 1991, they were able to immigrate to the U.S. Five years later, they became U.S. citizens.
The Huynh family set up a GoFundMe account to help pay for application fees and medical expenses.
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