Not understanding how this is at all relevant to the question at hand. The OPs friend mother happened to be born in Colombia but the european family shortly thereafter moved to the US. IMO while technically legal, it is disingenuous for this applicant, who may also have no identification with Colombia or the time her family spent in SA (though sure, she should consider researching it- its probably very interesting) to “self identify” as hispanic/latina if she does not truthfully identify as such. There have been previous discussions about this where questions posed to gauge if a person identifies with a particular group were posed. Will have to look for it. Guess it comes down to: can she? Maybe. Should she? No.