To the court, I want to express my sincere apologies. I was impudent, na\u00efve, and ignorant. I caused trouble not only to myself, to my family, to the U.S. government but also to all of those who attended the sentencing hearing. I made a mistake when I made a false statement on a passport application for my daughter. I misrepresented the fact of my marriage status. I made a huge mistake and I learned a big lesson. I can assure you, I will not make the same mistake again. I have two very young kids, my son is only 4 years old, and my daughter is about 18 months old. I miss both of them very much. I pleaded guilty to this charge, but also, as a mother, I feel guilty that I am not performing my duty to care for my two kids. Thank you for imposing probation so that I am able to rejoin my family back to China as quickly as possible. Thank you. <\/p>\n
To the public I also want to apologize for my actions. I know now that there are lawful means to address the situation I found myself in. My daughter was born on Saipan, but my husband was not able to travel here for her birth. When I applied for a passport for my daughter, I left my husband\u2019s name off the application because I thought it would be easier and faster. It turns out that there is a form from the U.S. Department of State, which is for situations like this. It is called the DS-3053 and may be used where one of a minor child\u2019s parents is not available at the time the passport is executed. I have learned from my mistake and I hope that this letter may help others avoid the same mistake.<\/p>\n
Yu Zou<\/strong> To the court, I want to express my sincere apologies. I was impudent, na\u00efve, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[169,163,122,12263],"class_list":["post-232263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-china","tag-kids","tag-travel","tag-yu-zou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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