I have a Chinese friend who went to a top university and graduated with an MBA 10 years ago.
From her, I hear the trial and tribulations of H1B holders. My friend now has advance parole and is able to travel whereas before she could not leave the country.
For some time, she was laid-off and had to temporarily change back to graduate student status. On the advice of her lawyer, she did not collect unemployment benefits during that period although she was entitled to it (as this could compromise her grad student status).
She’s still waiting for her green-card. And she’s pissed off about all the hoops she had to jump through, not to mention having to pay attorneys’ fees.
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The story is missing something. Laid off H1B is not entitled to unemployment. You cannot casually jump in and out of H1B status. In most cases losing H1B status leads to cancellation of the GC application.
Assuming the story is true your opinion is based
on one exceptional case.
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This woman is smart and hard-driving. She has no compassion for Latino immigrants whom she calls lazy, dirty and undeserving.
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Nice friends you have.
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But you know what? She has a good job, a good salary, a nice place to live, and eventually she’ll get her green card.
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She might. Or she may lose her job for real and be forced to leave the country. There is no extension for selling property, completing school year, completing medical treatment, etc…
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Unauthorized immigrants who live in the shadows have none of that. I tell my friend that a little compassion would do her some good.
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It might be hard for your friend to have more compassion for people who are in this county illegally while things that you take for granted are out of the reach for her.
The definition and the appropriate level of compassion is personal thing. She might find the ease with which you like to share what is not yours distasteful and yet you both could be right at the same time.
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The difference between Americans and others is that we have compassion.[/quote]
Does that apply to naturalized Americans as well? Is that genetics or learned behavior?
