His parents were here legally, but not as immigrants, the wife was pregnant with Bobby when they arrived, the father was very reluctant to accept the (wife’s) scholarship in the first place.
Bobby’s Mother;
“Raj was the daughter of a bank manager. She first came to America on a scholarship to study for her doctorate in nuclear physics at Louisiana State University.”
Bobby’s father;
Though the university health plan denied coverage for the birth (it was ruled a “preexisting condition”), the one-month paid maternity leave was awarded as promised — that was the perk that had tipped the scales for Amar, who’d been hesitant to leave home, having worked his way up through the ranks to the respected position of assistant professor of engineering at Punjab University in Chandigarh, the newly dedicated capital city of their home state.
Ah, thanks for that, I knew the emigrated but wasn’t aware of the details. they did stay though, didn’t they?
I was shocked the first time I heard Jindal speak. I was expecting a high Indian voice and out comes this Cajun drawl. LOL.