Bharati and her sister, Mira, moved to America for over 35 years. Bharati has been travel around and become an American citizen while Mira lives as “expatriate Indian” in the US. Bharati is welcomed the “emotional strain” of marrying outside of her community, which means that she is ready to change her original culture and transform herself to a new culture. Mira didn’t apply to become a US citizen because she still wants to go back to India when she retries. Both of the sisters having polite arguments in the their new country- Congress passes the new immigration laws. The new immigration laws will take away the government benefits from the resident alien, and Mira is a long-term resident. Bharati points out that Mira didn’t commit what she
