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Beautiful People,
“What had I been thinking? It was one thing to become an expatriate with an option to build our future in the new country. It was quite another story when we didn’t even have the possibility of a future here. As J visa holders, we would have to go back to the country of last residence immediately after the program ended. The immigration system doesn’t care how unique your program is, or how professionally attractive you have become” —The Opposite of Comfortable.
Celebrating Fridays until my May 17th book release with quotes from my book, and today’s quote is from Chapter 7, The Ability To Find Meaning. After three months in the city and after September 11th, I had no prospect of finding a job. The chance that a company would hire a project manager with an expiration date was slim to none. I realized finding a job in my field and maintain my career was unlikely.
We relocated to the United States on a J-1 visa, which was an exchange visitor, non-immigrant visa. It allowed an individual to participate in a work-and-study-based exchange visitor program. The visa requires leaving the United States immediately after the program ended and returning to the country of last residence.
To receive J-1 visa, applicants should present an essential academic certification, employment background and financial ability to support yourself during your stay. By definition, many of the people who meet those requirements have a spouse and/or dependents. What should the spouse do? Join the primary visa holder on their voyage to the land of the free, quit his/her career, uproot the children from their natural environment, or should they stay behind and break up the family?
America hasn’t opened educational and professional exchange programs to internationals out of the kindness of its heart. America NEEDS exchange programs to strengthen relations between the US and other countries. It is a win-win situation.
Every so often, at the end of their program, those professionals become so unique it is unwise of America to kick them back to the country of their last residence. America needs professional exchange visitors. Do skilled educated professionals need America? Is it worthwhile for professionals to pay such a high personal price to specialize in America?
XO,
Sharon
“What had I been thinking? It was one thing to become an expatriate with an option to build our future in the new country. It was quite another story when we didn’t even have the possibility of a future here. As J visa holders, we would have to go back to the country of last residence immediately after the program ended. The immigration system doesn’t care how unique your program is, or how professionally attractive you have become” —The Opposite of Comfortable.
Celebrating Fridays until my May 17th book release with quotes from my book, and today’s quote is from Chapter 7, The Ability To Find Meaning. After three months in the city and after September 11th, I had no prospect of finding a job. The chance that a company would hire a project manager with an expiration date was slim to none. I realized finding a job in my field and maintain my career was unlikely.
We relocated to the United States on a J-1 visa, which was an exchange visitor, non-immigrant visa. It allowed an individual to participate in a work-and-study-based exchange visitor program. The visa requires leaving the United States immediately after the program ended and returning to the country of last residence.
To receive J-1 visa, applicants should present an essential academic certification, employment background and financial ability to support yourself during your stay. By definition, many of the people who meet those requirements have a spouse and/or dependents. What should the spouse do? Join the primary visa holder on their voyage to the land of the free, quit his/her career, uproot the children from their natural environment, or should they stay behind and break up the family?
America hasn’t opened educational and professional exchange programs to internationals out of the kindness of its heart. America NEEDS exchange programs to strengthen relations between the US and other countries. It is a win-win situation.
Every so often, at the end of their program, those professionals become so unique it is unwise of America to kick them back to the country of their last residence. America needs professional exchange visitors. Do skilled educated professionals need America? Is it worthwhile for professionals to pay such a high personal price to specialize in America?
XO,
Sharon
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