so, i really think being able to have such wonderful partnerships with people like annie chung i'm in with the immigrant rights commission and with rip ripple who is our -- rich ripple who is our acting director at oci and it's important, why? at that time when my parents had the least amount of resources, had the least amount of time, they had to pay legal fees, they had to figure out the ways to make it work and navigate a system that was hard, complex and not easy for someone who couldn't understand english. so being able to have a program like this in san francisco this pathway program where you're able to get free legal advice, you're able to actually understand the process and work with people who have helped many, many and thousands of people before reached citizenship is a huge comfort and a wonderful bottom line impact for people who don't have as much resources as we would want and so again, i'm happy to be here and i want to thank all of the folks who are here today, all the board members who joined us and annie for our incredible service, thank you so much. [cheers and app

so, i really think being able to have such wonderful partnerships with people like annie chung i'm in with the immigrant rights commission and with rip ripple who is our -- rich ripple who is our acting director at oci and it's important, why? at that time when my parents had the least amount of resources, had the least amount of time, they had to pay legal fees, they had to figure out the ways to make it work and navigate a system that was hard, complex and not easy for someone who couldn't understand english. so being able to have a program like this in san francisco this pathway program where you're able to get free legal advice, you're able to actually understand the process and work with people who have helped many, many and thousands of people before reached citizenship is a huge comfort and a wonderful bottom line impact for people who don't have as much resources as we would want and so again, i'm happy to be here and i want to thank all of the folks who are here today, all the board members who joined us and annie for our incredible service, thank you so much. [cheers and app

so, i really think being able to have such wonderful partnerships with people like annie chung i'm inh the immigrant rights commission and with rip ripple who is our -- rich ripple who is our acting director at oci and it's important, why? at that time when my parents had the least amount of resources, had the least amount of time, they had to pay legal fees, they had to figure out the ways to make it work and navigate a system that was hard, complex and not easy for someone who couldn't understand english. so being able to have a program like this in san francisco this pathway program where you're able to get free legal advice, you're able to actually understand the process and work with people who have helped many, many and thousands of people before reached citizenship is a huge comfort and a wonderful bottom line impact for people who don't have as much resources as we would want and so again, i'm happy to be here and i want to thank all of the folks who are here today, all the board members who joined us and annie for our incredible service, thank you so much. [cheers and applaus

so, i really think being able to have such wonderful partnerships with people like annie chung i'm in with the immigrant rights commission and with rip ripple who is our -- rich ripple who is our acting director at oci and it's important, why? at that time when my parents had the least amount of resources, had the least amount of time, they had to pay legal fees, they had to figure out the ways to make it work and navigate a system that was hard, complex and not easy for someone who couldn't understand english. so being able to have a program like this in san francisco this pathway program where you're able to get free legal advice, you're able to actually understand the process and work with people who have helped many, many and thousands of people before reached citizenship is a huge comfort and a wonderful bottom line impact for people who don't have as much resources as we would want and so again, i'm happy to be here and i want to thank all of the folks who are here today, all the board members who joined us and annie for our incredible service, thank you so much. [cheers and app