After entering the US

[kingk 0]

I guess anyone may have trouble on this. After entering the US, will he or she be working right away or be a student first? My idea is for my fiance to study after entering the US and then find a job. I guess since with her foreign academic degree, it is not easy to find a well-paid job. What is your input? What would your fiance do after entering the US?

[joeyjoey 1]

I guess anyone may have trouble on this. After entering the US, will he or she be working right away or be a student first? My idea is for my fiance to study after entering the US and then find a job. I guess since with her foreign academic degree, it is not easy to find a well-paid job. What is your input? What would your fiance do after entering the US?

I think you should let your Fiancee make that decision for herself. If you try to push her in a direction that she does not want or is not really ready for, you would be doing much more harm than good. My Fiancee will be studying English first. There is a Brazilian community here, so she will have some contact with other Brazilians. And when she is ready for whatever comes next, she will let me know. We go from there.

I want her to start to understand the culture that is America. And I want her to make her own opinions of our country. It is a big move for her and you have to allow her the growing room to adjust and to adapt. How much is too much and when is too soon? Don't know. Better to let her define those parameters as the months pass.

[Shub 78]

I have no experience with this but I would expect that the "validity" (so to speak) of her foreign degree and how highly it will be considered by American employers may depend on her country of origin. For example, a degree from a European university should have as much weight as an American degree due to existing international agreements (such agreements are more prevalent within the EU but I'm sure there must be something between the EU and the US). A US employer may not even worry about anything when they see she has a bachelor's or a master's as long as it's real.

Regardless, I agree with the sentiment that you should let her do what she feels like doing. I know that if my fiancée told me to go back to studying when I arrive in the US, there would be a problem.