Some 10 million US visa applications are filed each year. 40 percent will get denied. Only 10 percent will get Permanent resident "Green-cards". Scars & Stripes records the 20-year journey of one family through the Immigration System, defying repeated denials, corrupt and incompetent immigration lawyers, and questionable conduct by the United States Citizenship & Immigration Service and Department of State, to become one of the 10 percent.