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Scenario 1 –COUNTRY: Pakistan Hello! You are a 24-year-old woman named, Avideh (AHH-VI-DAY). You are a student and you’re studying physics and engineering. You don’t have children and you are single. You are an upper-class citizen (a.k.a. you’re rich). Your country is going through a civil war and you joined a group that actively speaks out against the new government. You don’t know how or who, but you started getting texts and phone calls at random hours of the night telling you to be quiet “or else”. You also suspect people are following you because you always see the same car outside your apartment when you’re home and it leaves as soon you leave for school. One of your friends went missing a few weeks ago but the police are not helping (they were with the new government). You heard some rumors that your friend is being held by the government and being tortured. You started noticing more cars following you even on your way to school now. With no one to protect you, you decide you need to come to the United States before anything happens to you. Can you (or should you be allowed to) come to the US? Scenario 2 – COUNTRY: MexicoHello! Your name is Ignacia. You are 32 years old. You are divorced and care for your two children, Jorge (4) and Ana (6), and your 85-year-old grandmother, Joana. You are a bank executive in Mexico City. You are middle class. You recently met Joaquin at a work conference. He is a legal permanent resident in the United States. He is from Peru. He is also an executive at a bank. You met and after a few months of texting, phone calls, Facebooking, and a few visits from Joaquin, he professed his love for you and proposed. You said yes. Joaquin wants to bring you and your family with him to the United States.Can you (or should you be allowed to) come to the US? Senario 3 – COUNTRY: Iran Hello! Your name is Firouz (FEH-ROOZ). You are a 55-year-old widowed man. You work as a barber Tehran but work is slowing down because of shifts in government. You are a lower-class citizen. You have a rare heart condition that you cannot treat in your country, but there is a hospital in L.A. (conveniently) that treats your specific condition. (PS, you will die if you don’t get treatment)Also, your sister immigrated to the United States 15 years ago and is a Legal Permanent Resident. She owns her own barber shop in L.A. and could use some help around the store. Can you (or should you be allowed to) come to the US? Scenario 4—Country: HondurasHello! Your name is Mariano. You are 43 years old and happily married with three children, a wife, and 2 dogs. You are a carpenter, but haven’t been able to find a job in about a month and work has been pretty unstable. You just found out your wife is pregnant with your fourth child. You are a high school dropout. You don’t have much money saved, but your cousin came into the United States illegally and has a steady construction job in Houston and is sending his family lots of money. He says they have a job space for you. You talk it over with your wife and kids and plan on sending money back home every paycheck to help your kids get a better education. You decide to come to the United States on foot without a coyote (someone that smuggles people into the U.S. illegally for a fee) because it’s too expensive and you have your cousins map that he used to come to the country so how hard could it be, right? By the way, it’s more than 1,000 miles to the United States on foot.POSSIBLE ANSWERS: SCENARIO ONE: Phone calls are not enough of a threat for asylum. Maybe work visa? She has to be able to prove financial support. You have 90 days to find a job in your field of study. If she’s getting her masters, she could apply for the H1B which is a visa that allows graduate workers to work up to 6 years in the US but trump is trying to get rid of this. The employer could sponsor her, but that is not easy either. Scenario TWO : Tourist visa but you have to prove you won’t stay in the country. NEW PLAN: get married once husband is USC in 5 years. She can bring children but not her grandmother. Scenario THREE : work visa; maybe sister could sponsor but she has to prove that he is not taking an American’s job. NEW PLAN: get sister to become USC and she can sponsor. But then that could take 15-20 years. OR Medical Visa, but hard to get and takes time. PLUS TRAVEL BAN to make things more complicated. Scenario 4: Work with his cousin in LA (undocumented) Work visa (1 year only. ~ +500 in application fees and you have to renew before about 3 months before it expires) ................
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