What it’s like to grow up a non-citizen and have to earn it.
Living The American Dream
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Living The American Dream
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#2Nicely done and inspirational. Thanks for the post on your blog and for putting it here so I would find it.
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#3Nicely done and inspirational. Thanks for the post on your blog and for putting it here so I would find it.
Glad you liked it!
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#4Great story. Gives me a renewed appreciation for the privileges I was born with.
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#5Congratulations for both becoming a US Citizen and for getting involved in tech! Great to see SE PA is developing more of a tech scene, too (I'm originally from there).
It's kind of frustrating that the state department consular staff dropped the ball on informing your family about applying for citizenship -- I know of people who ended up stateless after the fall of the USSR for similar reasons.
I suspect on the west coast there would be more opportunities to go to college without an SSN for financial aid (by using state or private grants), due to the relatively larger number of non-citizen or undocumented immigrants.
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#6Awesome story.
We don’t get to choose what country we’re born in or what socio-economic status...
It bums me out how few people (at least, in the US) seem to recognize this. It's such a lottery, and there's a big difference between pride and entitlement. The world would probably quickly get much closer to an actual meritocracy if this particular lottery ran closer to once-a-decade or so, instead of once-per-lifetime.
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#7This seems like a good example of how screwed up immigration policies are in this country.
We should be running out to other countries and actively recruiting people like her to immigrate here. She's smart, she's hard-working, and she's obviously incredibly motivated. But despite all this, the process of even getting a green card took a ridiculously long time.
I really don't understand people knee jerk stance against immigration (well, I do understand it, it's largely racism).
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#8Great story.
My family immigrated as well, from the former Soviet Union, but thankfully we had help and I got my citizenship only 5 years after moving to the US.
I really am thankful every day that my parents braved the incredible hardships of moving to the other side of the world to a country where everything was different from what they knew.
If it wasn't for them making this decision, I wouldn't have the incredible opportunities that I do today.
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#9Great story. My family immigrated as well, from the former Soviet Union, but thankfully we had help and I got my citizenship only 5 years after moving to the US. I really am thankful every day that my parents braved the incredible hardships of moving to the other side of the world to a country where everything was different from what they knew. If it wasn't for them making this decision, I wouldn't have the incredibl…
Just wanted to chime in that I recently had a very similar conversation with my parents. Thanked them and chatted about the effort they went through to uproot their entire life and immigrate.
Guess what I'm trying to say is, if you've been putting off giving thanks for something similar, now is a better time than ever.
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#10This seems like a good example of how screwed up immigration policies are in this country. We should be running out to other countries and actively recruiting people like her to immigrate here. She's smart, she's hard-working, and she's obviously incredibly motivated. But despite all this, the process of even getting a green card took a ridiculously long time. I really don't understand people knee jerk stance against…
That's a fascinating idea I've been kicking around for a while now. What if a country recruited citizens?
The US almost did in a way at the end of WW2 and we more or less got a space program out of it.