How did Lo Ta-yu become a U.S. citizen after living in the U.S. for only 25 months?🔥

Here is the known timeline for Lo Ta-yu:

Time Fact Source

July 20, 1954 Born in Taipei Biography

December 31, 1984 Held a farewell concert in Taiwan and temporarily left the music industry Southern People Weekly, Lo Ta-yu chronology: “On December 31, held the ‘One Last Night to Warm Each Other’ farewell concert at the Taipei Arena and temporarily left the pop music scene”

March 13, 1985 Arrived in New York with his father A Date with Luyu, interview with Lo himself: “My sister had already immigrated to the United States,” and he was asked by his father to sign an immigration form; “with my father, from March 9, 1985—he took me to Japan, he knew Japan quite well, and then we stayed four days, and then on March 13, 1985, we went to New York. I still remember the dates very clearly.”

1985–1987 Lived with his sister on the U.S. East Coast The Paper, in his own words: “At the end of 1984, I decided to leave the music industry, leave Taiwan, and go to the United States. We were on the East Coast, living with my sister. In 1987, I wrote home and told my parents that I had decided to pursue music. That year, I received an invitation from Nansun Shi of Hong Kong’s Cinema City film company and went to Hong Kong to serve as music director.”

April 1, 1987 Moved to Hong Kong A Date with Luyu, interview with Lo himself: “I stayed from April 1, 1987, until roughly early 1997—yes, in fact nearly 10 years”

1992 Obtained a U.S. passport The Beijing News: “After singing ‘Phenomenon 72 Changes,’ he pulled out the U.S. passport he had obtained in ’92 and, in front of the full audience, cut up the U.S. passport”

If this timeline is accurate, then he left the United States after living there on a green card for less than 25 months and never lived in the United States long-term again, yet he obtained a U.S. passport five years after leaving the United States. This makes one wonder how Tan Youqing, who spent five anxious years trying to maintain his green card and is still agonizing over whether he can file N-400, should feel about this.

It can’t have been through military service, right? First, no media outlet has reported it. Second, GPT told me (not yet fact-checked) that the policy at the time required three years of service before naturalization, and the fast-track naturalization policy for the Gulf War did not come out until 1994, so the timeline doesn’t match up at all.

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