Aletheia Dolorosa wrote:Don't you think that people would migrate legally if they could? Try to imagine if you lived in a country that was gripped by civil war, or where there were no opportunities for your children. It's not just about wanting to move somewhere for economic reasons. Migrating illegally is not some queue-jumping easy option, and I would think that people only do it because migrating legally is made unnecessarily hard.
Oh, please. You think they've got problems? Imagine how you'd feel if you had to go to a grocery store and actually find something on your own instead of just having the clerk find it for you!
I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.Currently trying to get employment sponsorship for an H1B visa to work in the US. Even the Science Employment specialists don't want to deal with visa applicants, so I'm pretty much on my own, applying to big science companies directly, trying to explain what an undergraduate masters is and what an upper second class honours means in terms of GPA, even though they don't really equate.
Oh the wondrous prospect of evolving myself into a cog for the corporate machine!
*Feels your pain and then some* I've lived in the U.S. for nearly all of my life, and I have a non-undergraduate Masters and graduated
summa cum laude, both of which employees can understand perfectly well...and I've worked here (and paid taxes on that work) since I was 15. But now that I'm out of school, I can't
keep my job as a cog in the corporate machine, where I didn't even want to be in the first place...If getting an H1B is this hard for me, I can imagine how it is for you.
Callum, if you really do need advice, let me know. I'm a most unwilling expert on H1B/F1 processes by now. Getting an F1 visa will be the only alternative left to you, I suppose, if your H1B fails...except for marriage, of course.
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