©dross2017 Luc rides through the gates into his apartment complex – parks his with the rest of them. Sees the bike-stand-man on a stool cleaning vegetables. Not four feet away his three year old grandson

©dross2017 Before office hours on a cold Monday morning Luc sits down with his client in a small hotel lobby near the American Consulate. His client, Zhang Ke Xi, wants to leave China and go to the U.S.

I dedicate this book to the people of China. The waiters and waitresses, the laborers on construction sites, the bartenders, cabbies and the cashiers in stores. The homeless and the beggars. The ladies

My name is David Ross and I spent nearly twenty years living in China (1994 – 2013). The bulk of my work there was helping Chinese people obtain tourist visas to enter the U.S. as undeclared immigrants.