The officials even asked about minor details of their lives, such as who were their neighbors and how many windows were in their house. In order for paper sons to be eligible to enter the United States, their answers had to match those of their so-called "paper parents." For those who failed the interrogation exam were deported. 10% of the detainees were later deported. Rather than face the humiliation of being sent back to the villages, many pooled their meager resources to buy citizenship papers, or simply committed suicide.