What kind of CLT is this? Can I prove it using Lindeberg-Levy CLT?

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On deriving the asymptotic distribution of an estimator, I got stuck when proving something like follows:

Let $\{X_i(\beta):i=1,2,\ldots,n\}$ be i.i.d. with $\text{E}[X_i(\beta)]=\mu(\beta)$ and $\text{Var}[X_i(\beta)]=\sigma^2(\beta)$, then by Lindeberg-Levy we have $$ \sqrt{n}[X_i(\beta)-\mu(\beta)]\overset{A}{\sim}\mathcal{N}[0,\sigma^2(\beta)]. $$ However, we don't know what $\beta$ is, and thus we must find some estimator for that. Now, assume that we have some estimator for $\beta$ that follows $\hat\beta\overset{p}{\to}\beta$. Then it sure follows that $\text{E}[X_i(\hat\beta)]=\mu(\hat\beta)\overset{p}{\to}\mu(\beta)$ and $\text{Var}[X_i(\hat\beta)]=\sigma^2(\hat\beta)\overset{p}{\to}\sigma(\beta)$. My question is whether it still follows $$ \sqrt{n}[X_i(\hat\beta)-\mu(\beta)]\overset{A}{\sim}\mathcal{N}[0,\sigma^2(\beta)] $$ or not? In other words, is this $X_i(\hat\beta)$ still an efficient estimator for $\mu(\beta)$? Can I use Lindeberg-Levy or Khinchine's WLLN to prove it? I've tried for some hours but with no idea. It's just an intuition.

Any suggestion is appreciated, thanks!


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