Wednesday, April 22, 2009

You can never go home

Today's post by an post-doc [chall] reminded me of my own immigration experiences. It was a very depressing and demoralizing time period; one that I hope to never have to repeat.

But it has another, unexpected, consequence. It is really hard to go home for work. This idea of working for a while back home has come up, but leaving the US for an extended period of time for employment really appears to place the Green Card at risk. I could just wait it out, become a citizen and then consider such things. But that seems like a bad approach at a number of levels.

So there really is a "burning of the boats" feeling with my time in the US. It's probably a good thing that I like the environment here a lot. :-)

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