🔒 S4 E4 - Losing our USA Work Authorization ft. Excel Chukwurah, T/PgM at Google

The Non-Immigrant Student

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Hi guys,
I'm back with yet another episode featuring one of my best guys, Excel Chukwurah! "A friend, a colleague and a brother", we've spent the last two years making the best of our work & personal lives in New York City since we both moved here from Chicago and Ithaca, NY. Sadly, Excel & I will be temporarily saying goodbye to the US as we will be moving abroad to keep our jobs and maintain legal status of our US immigration. In this episode, we reminisce about our individual journey(s) to the US, dealing with shitty work situations, and all the fun memories we made while living in New York City. We also "schpiel" the tea of our new work locations/countries and options to consider when at a risk of losing your work authorization as a US non-immigrant. Fun-fact: One of us will be moving to another country in the Americas while the other will be moving to a country in Europe. Can you guess who?! It's definitely an episode of mixed feelings, bitter-sweet emotions and happy nostalgia of our time in the US so far. We had so much fun recording this and we hope you have as much fun listening. Lastly, if you have any well-wishes, advice or tips to share for moving to a new country, please send them via the 'Fan note' link and be rest assured that it is received with gratitude.
Tasty Bagels & Crusty Pizzas,
Tolu & Excel
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1. Intro x Shenanigans (00:00:00)

2. Explaining the US Work Authorization process (00:05:00)

3. Drum Roll: We'll be moving to.... (00:06:50)

4. Tolu's Arizona travel recap (insert winks & butterflies) (00:08:01)

5. Excel's journey to studying & working in the US (00:09:54)

6. How We Met (00:23:43)

7. Our Program Management / Work Experience at Google so far (00:28:32)

8. Finding out about our H-1B (US work visa) decision (00:38:16)

9. Alternative pathways to explore to secure Permanent Residency in the US (00:50:24)

10. What we'll miss most about the US // other countries to consider moving to asides the US (00:58:20)

11. What we'll miss most about New York City & each other (01:11:26)

12. Outro // This or That Questions (01:37:10)

13. Final words to the US government, our fellow non-immigrants and to each other :( (01:41:19)