Omar’s family spent five years integrating into Chile before returning to America.

Evidence

Omar stayed in Chile from 1992 until 1997 and in those five years he learned Spanish, played soccer, went to a Chilean school, and lived under his grandfather’s strict but doting ways. Within a few months, his father had graduated with a double master’s and rejoined his family in Santiago. They expected to make their lives there, and Ali sought contact with the large Palestinian-descendant population in Chile. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 735