Alex Sunny, a 26-year-old American truck driver, has suddenly become a viral sensation on TikTok for her long-distance love story, for which she now wants to relocate to Afghanistan permanently. As her Afghan husband can't come to the US because of the US travel ban, she will be relocating this year August, she claimed. Her claims are not verified and the account started becoming popular only recently -- triggering justified concerns over the veracity of her identity and story.
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Sunny claimed she has dual U.S.-Jordanian citizenship through her Jordanian father and American mother from Kentucky. She met her husband on Snapchat in July 2024 and their first in-person meeting was in December 2024. They got married but did not spend much time with each other.
