When I arrived the US, it was few months after that the whole divorce drama started.
When this started, I didn’t get to stop taking classes temporarily or take out time to take care of myself.
Now may be you are not going through such trauma, you may have moments when you will suffer emotional breakdown.
You wake up one day, and just feel this sudden unexplainable sadness!
It will come like a thick cloud ⛅️ howling over your head;
And if you don’t have a good insurance policy, which many students on F1 visas don’t have, your ability to take care of your mental health is impacted.
F1 Visa does not give you enough years to put yourself together, and the time stamp on it (2 years for instance, of which can be extended) puts you even under more pressure.
F1 Visa, as a survivor who is trying to leave with your children can get complicated as the embassy may raise questions that may trigger you and may find hard to answer.
1. Attend events that align with your interests. As a survivor, there are tons of human service agencies hosting events every year that you can attend.
For instance, there is month of October, for the Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Look out for events, both sponsored and paid that can help you build your professional network and portfolio.
There is nothing wrong with leveraging your lived experiences, as a DV survivor, to access this opportunity.
Starting today, make a list of events that relate to your lived experience, and creatively find a way to find those short trips within the space of 1-2 years.
Make sure they are repeated.
Also, make sure to not attend those kinds of events in the US alone.
Go to countries that are closer to your home country or where you are resident.
Once you can build a good traction in smaller countries, even the ones you can travel to by road, do so.
Write a book, publish articles or create a channel for promoting your work. Make sure it aligns with the events you are attending.
Next, increase your network, by identifying mentors or leaders in your industry. Your mentors could be your age mate lol or even younger.
Next, design a solid 1-3 years plan for a green card application through the EB2 or EB-1A route.
What is the EB2 for instance? It means you are asking to be granted permanent residency status for a proposed agenda that is of national importance or interest to the US.
This detail is in the book fully funded, coming to the @ideyforyou software application.
Obviously, you need money and or information; and for information, you need to know where those local conferences or events are so you can begin to explore them, in preparation for your big immigration plan.
When I arrived the US, it was few months after that the whole divorce drama started.
When this started, I didn’t get to stop taking classes temporarily or take out time to take care of myself.
Now may be you are not going through such trauma, you may have moments when you will suffer emotional breakdown.
You wake up one day, and just feel this sudden unexplainable sadness!
It will come like a thick cloud ⛅️ howling over your head;
And if you don’t have a good insurance policy, which many students on F1 visas don’t have, your ability to take care of your mental health is impacted.
F1 Visa does not give you enough years to put yourself together, and the time stamp on it (2 years for instance, of which can be extended) puts you even under more pressure.
⚠️F1 Visa , if you are a multi-potential survivor, will strangle your ability to innovate.
It will limit your options; and if acing your courses is important to you, it makes it even harder!
F1 Visa, as a survivor who is trying to leave with your children can get complicated as the embassy may raise questions that may trigger you and may find hard to answer.
Now, how then should you come to the US?
1. Attend events that align with your interests. As a survivor, there are tons of human service agencies hosting events every year that you can attend.
For instance, there is month of October, for the Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Look out for events, both sponsored and paid that can help you build your professional network and portfolio.
There is nothing wrong with leveraging your lived experiences, as a DV survivor, to access this opportunity.
Starting today, make a list of events that relate to your lived experience, and creatively find a way to find those short trips within the space of 1-2 years.
Make sure they are repeated.
Also, make sure to not attend those kinds of events in the US alone.
Go to countries that are closer to your home country or where you are resident.
Once you can build a good traction in smaller countries, even the ones you can travel to by road, do so.
It’s further authenticates your portfolio.
What steps should you take?
While building those events portfolio.
Write a book, publish articles or create a channel for promoting your work. Make sure it aligns with the events you are attending.
Next, increase your network, by identifying mentors or leaders in your industry. Your mentors could be your age mate lol or even younger.
Next, design a solid 1-3 years plan for a green card application through the EB2 or EB-1A route.
What is the EB2 for instance? It means you are asking to be granted permanent residency status for a proposed agenda that is of national importance or interest to the US.
This detail is in the book fully funded, coming to the @ideyforyou software application.
How should you take those steps?
I already covered the basics.
What do you need?
Obviously, you need money and or information; and for information, you need to know where those local conferences or events are so you can begin to explore them, in preparation for your big immigration plan.
Also, you need to get an international passport.