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Her book is called the broken welcome mat. When did you come to the United States . Guest i came to the United States in 1996 as a graduate School Student from Mainland China. When did you become a us citizen . Guest 2013. Host when did you begin the process . Guest the day after i arrived as a student i want to stay in the United States. 17 years to jump through the legal hoops, to become a naturalized us citizen. Host what were the hoops you had to jump through . Guest legal status. Our Immigration Law is stacked against the people, the Immigration Law, a family preference, because i dont have a fami ....
The process of becoming a u. S. Citizen . Guest the day after i arrived in china in 1986 as a student i wanted to stay here, United States. So from that day it took me 17 years to jump through all the legal hoops to become a naturalized u. S. Citizen. Host what are some of those hoops you had to jump through . Guest so first is to maintain the legal status, and our Immigration Law is stacked against the people like me who doesnt have family here because our Immigration Law heavily favored family preference. So because i dont have family here i need to first maintain my student status, and then find employee. Thats the only way i can become a legal resident here is through employment. So after i graduate i got a job offer from the citibank and worked for several fortune 500 companies to maintain my h1b work visa. Eventua ....
Mainland china. I became a citizen in 2013. When did you start that process to become a citizen . So first is to maintain the legal status and Immigration Law is stacked against people like me who doesnt have a family because our immigration has to favor familybased immigration. I dont have a family here so i need to maintain my student status and an employer. That is the only way to became a legal resident is through employment. I got a job offer from citibank and worked for several fortune 500 companies. Daimlerchrysler, the supply of the visa is not the demand stuck in a space for five years and got married after that, became a us citizen through marriage. Host if you havent gotten married would you still be in the system . Probably not. By the end of the five youre waiting i ran out of options. You are talking about a hurdle. It is another hurdle. When you dont know how long you can legally stay, i cannot buy a house, the emp ....
Account on how to organize with community guess that is grassroots and corporate power, asking too much. I know the richmond, california story is an incredibly important story, has really been told, i have seen a couple articles about it but it is one of the real stories we should be learning especially in baltimore, in terms of deindustrialization, racism, poverty and one of the most important things is lack of luxury to get hung up on not working together, like baltimore, richmond too small to have too many sectarian divisions and what is exciting about the richmond story is a found a way to get over those divisions, Work Together in an alliance that is able to get stuff done, significant Green Party Mayor in the united states. Really excited to learn. Join me in welcoming steve early. Thank you very much for that great introduction. The privilege to be here tonight. I ap ....