Amir later finds out due to his father-in-laws connection in the INS, they have been able to grant Sohrab a visa. The only real way to get Sohrab out of the country was to place him in an orphanage again, which did not sit well with Sohrab. Andrews directs him to an immigration lawyer named Omar Faisal. After the persistence Amir showed for not taking no for an answer Mr. ![]() No adoption agencies were willing to take on an Afghani case because of the turmoil the country is current in and the fact that there was no real way to prove Sohrab was an orphan due to no death certificates. Raymond Andrews delivers heart-breaking news to Amir as he discovers adopting Sohrab is close to impossible and is not too sympathetic about it either. The next day Amir and Sohrab make their way to the American embassy where their hopes are shot down. After fifteen years of marriage he is able to tell her everything and she still is able to look past it all. He mentions Sohrab and how he wishes to adopt him and finally EVERYTHING finally comes out. Amir is finally able to speak to Soraya on the phone at the hotel and her excitement exudes through the phone. Sohrab fears to be put into another orphanage and Amir promises to never allow that to happen. The two make their way back to the hotel. Amir explains that his father was not ashamed of Hassan but him self and his own actions. He also revealed the hidden fact that Sohrab was his nephew and Hassan his father is his brother. Amir works up the nerve to ask the boy if he would want to live with him and his wife in America. ![]() Amir tries to explain that some bad people stay bad and that he is clean and pure regardless of what they have done to him. The conversation leading into Sohrab feeling bad for what he did to Aseef at the Taliban’s mansion. Amir and Sohrab stare at the mosque and talk. Amir has the manager go back to the hotel to give them alone time. They found him about hundred yards away from the hotel. He seeks assistance fro the hotel manager, but because of the stigma of Afghanis the manager refused much service, until Amir begged and offered to pay him for a ride to the mosque. When he woke up Sohrab is nowhere to be found. He then took pain pills and went to sleep waiting for them to work. That is the last time Amir saw Farid again. Before he left Amir hands Farid an envelope that contains a little over two thousand dollars in order to pay him back for his kindness and help. Once they settled in Farid has to depart and return to his family. They acquire a hotel room in the city and the difference from the hotel in Kabul is drastic. It reminds Amir of Kabul and how one day that was his hope that the city could be that well organized but it appeared it was headed in the wrong direction. ![]() Amir, Sohrab, and Farid find there way to Peshawar.
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