Dv 2013 kenyan selectees report here!!!!

[Ash 2013]

Guys and gals
ha ha ha ha ha ha! You see! If you are already crying at my direct approach, my normal ordinary telling you how it is here in America then you will be gnashing teeth proper once you get here!!! Don't come here with your Kenyan 'humility' thinking you will get ahead in this society. American culture is AGGRESSIVE, OPINIONATED AND TO THE POINT, if you come here thinking you will shuffle around looking at your feet, unable to take both constructive advice nor criticism however misplaced you think it is then I feel sorry for you kabisa kabisa. IT'S NOTHING PERSONAL. The only person asking sensible questions is DonMisty. Rafiki to answer you ...absolutely YES it is possible! That is why you should be applying RIGHT NOW so that you do not land here like a deer in headlights ready to be CONSUMED ALIVE by America once you land here like most clueless GC lottery winners from Kenya we see landing here miaka nenda miaka rudi. As for the fellow talking about ati Kenyan degrees are not takataka (LOOOOOOOL) bring that KU degree hapa and come apply to Microsoft, Cisco, Morgan Stanley etc and lets see how far you go. My friend they will throw your cv to the bottom of the dustbin. Just because your sister got hired as a science teacher (of all things) or university professor at a community college or takataka state university earning $50k a year (I know that sounds like a fortune to some of you back in Kenya) does not mean you can get hired in the corporate world here without an American degree. I know this is terrible news for you and your ego but I am telling you the REALITY of things hapa, whether you chose to listen is on you. Yes I have worked the odd job circuit during my undergraduate years but I never wiped ***! I am not discouraging you from working them if you MUST do so to survive when you first get here but please WORK THEM WHILE YOU ARE ENROLLED IN SCHOOL otherwise you will be WASTING TIME my friends. If you think you will do odd jobs and "save" and then launch from savings after a few years then you hold the empty pipe dream that millions of Kenyans before you had when they landed on these shores and who are now on prescription depression pills scattered all across this country. Its your prerogative to come to America but please do not do so coming in with rose tinted glasses about how everything will fall in place on your lap once you descend upon the land of opportunity. I know a lot of things are hard to understand if you have not experienced them but get here and with the benefit of experience you will look back and say this strange Mombasa_Guy character was telling us the truth, the truth and nothing but the pure truth. Hopefully you will not be muttering that while holding on to a mop in the lobby of the Atlanta Marriott Marquis like those desolate looking Kenyans I saw there juzi in their cleaners uniforms looking weatherbeaten by the harsh realities of life in this America you so crave to come to after living here for decades.

You can tell people the truth in a more civilized way Mombasa guy. You don't have to bring people's hopes down in this manner. Your communication skills are so wanting. You better style up or get lost.

 

[emmah]

Thank you. Am hoping to be current in April. I will thank Godooooooooooh.

You will be current for sure.all the best

 

[dubai-b]

@makiki am yet to relocate...this stage ain't easy. This dude is still in yester years when they went to USA from villages. Some immigrants are relocating and buying homes not houses men! We are in this forum for each other. I want to give back to this forum for i know what i learnt from it. Be role a model and don't blow your own trumpet.

 

[dubai-b]

exactly......focus on the big picture.

 

[dubai-b]

Guys and gals
ha ha ha ha ha ha! You see! If you are already crying at my direct approach, my normal ordinary telling you how it is here in America then you will be gnashing teeth proper once you get here!!! Don't come here with your Kenyan 'humility' thinking you will get ahead in this society. American culture is AGGRESSIVE, OPINIONATED AND TO THE POINT, if you come here thinking you will shuffle around looking at your feet, unable to take both constructive advice nor criticism however misplaced you think it is then I feel sorry for you kabisa kabisa. IT'S NOTHING PERSONAL. The only person asking sensible questions is DonMisty. Rafiki to answer you ...absolutely YES it is possible! That is why you should be applying RIGHT NOW so that you do not land here like a deer in headlights ready to be CONSUMED ALIVE by America once you land here like most clueless GC lottery winners from Kenya we see landing here miaka nenda miaka rudi. As for the fellow talking about ati Kenyan degrees are not takataka (LOOOOOOOL) bring that KU degree hapa and come apply to Microsoft, Cisco, Morgan Stanley etc and lets see how far you go. My friend they will throw your cv to the bottom of the dustbin. Just because your sister got hired as a science teacher (of all things) or university professor at a community college or takataka state university earning $50k a year (I know that sounds like a fortune to some of you back in Kenya) does not mean you can get hired in the corporate world here without an American degree. I know this is terrible news for you and your ego but I am telling you the REALITY of things hapa, whether you chose to listen is on you. Yes I have worked the odd job circuit during my undergraduate years but I never wiped ***! I am not discouraging you from working them if you MUST do so to survive when you first get here but please WORK THEM WHILE YOU ARE ENROLLED IN SCHOOL otherwise you will be WASTING TIME my friends. If you think you will do odd jobs and "save" and then launch from savings after a few years then you hold the empty pipe dream that millions of Kenyans before you had when they landed on these shores and who are now on prescription depression pills scattered all across this country. Its your prerogative to come to America but please do not do so coming in with rose tinted glasses about how everything will fall in place on your lap once you descend upon the land of opportunity. I know a lot of things are hard to understand if you have not experienced them but get here and with the benefit of experience you will look back and say this strange Mombasa_Guy character was telling us the truth, the truth and nothing but the pure truth. Hopefully you will not be muttering that while holding on to a mop in the lobby of the Atlanta Marriott Marquis like those desolate looking Kenyans I saw there juzi in their cleaners uniforms looking weatherbeaten by the harsh realities of life in this America you so crave to come to after living here for decades.

Mzee, if you were the CO at the embassy i would have dropped my dream on the counter but ole wako God had other plans for all the kenyans your pretending to help. You sound bitter like you missed your welfare cheque! Your ain't scaring nobody by dropping names of what to you are blue chip companies. Go brag to your agemates about marriot marguis, its probably the furthest you have gone in your many moon years. This members here are seeking to enter the kingdom above. Life is not all about the benjamins but living your dream. I doubt if you have kids cos if you do am sure wako ashamed of you as a role model.
Am proud of those kenyans in marriot and God bless.
On your way home to mombasa make a stopover for dinner in a seven star all for free and a gps to give you directions in mombasa.

 

[Mombasa_guy]

 

[dubai-b]

You don't deserve any reply from me and i won't stoop to your level.....you might be a McNaughton's case....heheh

 

[nickelly]

LOL Makiki, emmah na wengineo,
I do not mean to burst your bubbles but wacha I patia you guys a few tips, if you are wise you will take them to heart, if not shauri yako. A small piece of advice for starters; for those who have not stepped foot on your POE, stop trying to do mingi mingi plans ati ooo I will arrive do CNA then do this. I almost burst a rib cracking up at some of the plans I am seeing. I also tried to do the same many moons ago from Kenya when most of you were probably still sperms in your papa's balls and so on. No matter how hard you plan, when you land in the USA you will be starting from ground ZERO. The only thing you need to be planning right now is how you will cope with the massive CULTURE SHOCK that you are going to experience mpaka some of you will be weeping like babies asking mama to bring you back home.

That culture shock will descend on you and stick around like a bad smell for months if not years. You come here thinking hapa ni kama Kenya ati you go next door to borrow sukari from mama so and so..wapi?? Try that and you'll find a LUGER staring at your face. Next thing I hope you all have admissions to Unis hapa already lined up if you don't have a degree already. By the way your Kenyan degrees are takataka here, if you think you will come hapa and Microsoft is waiting to hire you with your Kenyatta Uni degree I really pity you. Worse, if you are planning to come hapa and not even get into Uni but just do odd jobs (CNA na kadhalika) allow me to laugh at you for ten minutes rafiki (LOOOL). There are legion Kenyans hapa who came and started doing those kazi ya mkono odd jobs and 30 years down the line they are walking zombies with broken dreams. The cost of living here in the States si mchezo..ati you see people driving big cars hapa and sending a few sumunis home that build the best looking house in your village and think they are doing well?? A car and living in a nice apartment are nothing here...even people on WELFARE drive SUV's and wear Gucci. Do not be mesmerized by those toys, you will come get used to them quick and get bored of them. But those who have them are paying through the nose, some working three jobs to sustain the loans they take to buy those hopeless things. Of course if you are working three jobs to pay basic bills you have no time to go to school. Utakwama hapo hapo tu and join the host of hundreds of thousands if not millions of miserable alcoholic Kenyans here rotting at the underclass of American society. The only difference is you will be a depressed Gucci wearing SUV driving zombie but with a greencard while many of them don't have GC's.

Next thing, America is on decline watu wangu. The economy is in the worst shape in its history. In fact it is easier to get rich in Kenya than it is here. In Kenya some of us diasporans who bought worthless plots around Nairobi and coast in the 90s and early 00's for example are sitting really pretty. Nowhere in the world can you make such easy money as in Kenya. Unemployment hapa is running high except of course for matako wipers (LoL) McDonalds workers and the like. The Kenyans with degrees from Harvard and so on are actually heading home as the bail ship with the economic crises happening hapa. Unless matako wiping is your destiny you should think twice about coming here if you have a great job and a few investments nyumbani. If you have NOTHING at home then you have nothing to lose so by all means come to America and enjoy the bone chilling freezing weather and hostile people here!

Some of us tumeona America mpaka tumechoka, name it we have done it, we struggled the early years but stuck to school while others went the CNA route. The excitement that you guys are feeling for this place we lost it over a decade ago. The only thing we value about USA now is our US passports that let us in anywhere around the world. Kujeni tu muwe the new immigrant masufferers kiasi kidogo shauri yenu but you are in for tough times if you arent already a) very financially comfy b) planning to get into uni immediately you land or c) if you are leaving a good job and comfy life expecting to come here and get corporate jobs easy.

Ni mimi tu

Mombasa_Guy headed back to my retirement kibanda by the beach hapo Mombasa rahaaa

I know one thing is for sure is that God Jehova has good plans for us and with God nothing is impossible. i have friends and relatives who have made it. They have established themselves there and in Kenya it depends whom you serve, its either the devil or God.

 

[dubai-b]

I know one thing is for sure is that God Jehova has good plans for us and with God nothing is impossible. i have friends and relatives who have made it. They have established themselves there and in Kenya it depends whom you serve, its either the devil or God.[/QUOTE

I would urge you to assume this old stinking piece of ****. He is just a failure, jealous and ready to distract you guys. He got no facts but full of cheap talk.

 

[MaKiki]

I know one thing is for sure is that God Jehova has good plans for us and with God nothing is impossible. i have friends and relatives who have made it. They have established themselves there and in Kenya it depends whom you serve, its either the devil or God.

I would urge you to assume this old stinking piece of ****. He is just a failure, jealous and ready to distract you guys. He got no facts but full of cheap talk.

dubai-b kudos brother dont say a word back. (A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.)

I have no words to express myself about the skunk, anyway lets assume that he isnt here because he is full of crap and suffers from oral diarrhoea. Its a pity that he is so cheap, trivial and petty combined he doesnt seem to be what he claims.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. Just watch and see the fool running his mouth.........

>>>>>>>>>>>>>Where is Obeezyb we fry the skunk lol!!!<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

 

[dubai-b]

dubai-b kudos brother dont say a word back. (A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.)

I have no words to express myself about the skunk, anyway lets assume that he isnt here because he is full of crap and suffers from oral diarrhoea. Its a pity that he is so cheap, trivial and petty combined he doesnt seem to be what he claims.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. Just watch and see the fool running his mouth.........

>>>>>>>>>>>>>Where is Obeezyb we fry the skunk lol!!!<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<[/QUO

Exactly, give him a blackout and let him take his myopic views to his agemates, wakikunywa mnazi(got respect for mnazi though)

 

[cathyliss]

dubai-b kudos brother dont say a word back. (A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.)

I have no words to express myself about the skunk, anyway lets assume that he isnt here because he is full of crap and suffers from oral diarrhoea. Its a pity that he is so cheap, trivial and petty combined he doesnt seem to be what he claims.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. Just watch and see the fool running his mouth.........

>>>>>>>>>>>>>Where is Obeezyb we fry the skunk lol!!!<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<[/QUO

Exactly, give him a blackout and let him take his myopic views to his agemates, wakikunywa mnazi(got respect for mnazi though)

Am just wondering..he claims to have spent decades in America...why did he stay that long?He is just jealous and to make it worse OLD.so guys as for me its dv2014 and am not turnin back whatsoever.keep on keepin on guys.Lets move forward to whatever God has kept for us.We shall make it IJN!

 

[PAPASAN]

I totally agree with dubai-b this mombasa guy shouldnt be given attention at all, just ignore him .wish there was way to block him but this fool might sign uip with another name..i suggest we give him a total black out!

 

[Karendi]

The devil just invaded our forum

I totally agree with dubai-b this mombasa guy shouldnt be given attention at all, just ignore him .wish there was way to block him but this fool might sign uip with another name..i suggest we give him a total black out!

GFF!! What has been happening over the weekend? Did i just read someone saying a persons mother's womb was stinking? What the hell?? Its just a forum for crying out loud, its NEVER THAT SERIOUS!

Ok, lets all exhale....Mombasa guy might have a point or two but then again there is a better way of saying it without insulting anyone. Once you give your advice LEAVE IT AT THAT...its upto us to decide to take or not. Either way, Mombasa guy is bitter and resentful but there is hope in Christ Jesus.

All the months I have been in this forum I have not seen such magnitude of insults and lack of respect to each other. Lets respect each other and avoid insults and negative energy.

Lord have mercy!!

NEWS SHOT: WE ARE ALL SUCCESSFUL, GOD HANDPICKED US AMONG MILLIONS FOR A REASON. HE SAID YES AND WHEN HE SAYS YES, NO ONE, NOT A DEMON OR A GOVT OR EVEN AN ECONOMY OF THIS WORLD CAN SAY NO.

 

[Karendi]

LOL Makiki, emmah na wengineo,
I do not mean to burst your bubbles but wacha I patia you guys a few tips, if you are wise you will take them to heart, if not shauri yako. A small piece of advice for starters; for those who have not stepped foot on your POE, stop trying to do mingi mingi plans ati ooo I will arrive do CNA then do this. I almost burst a rib cracking up at some of the plans I am seeing. I also tried to do the same many moons ago from Kenya when most of you were probably still sperms in your papa's balls and so on. No matter how hard you plan, when you land in the USA you will be starting from ground ZERO. The only thing you need to be planning right now is how you will cope with the massive CULTURE SHOCK that you are going to experience mpaka some of you will be weeping like babies asking mama to bring you back home.

That culture shock will descend on you and stick around like a bad smell for months if not years. You come here thinking hapa ni kama Kenya ati you go next door to borrow sukari from mama so and so..wapi?? Try that and you'll find a LUGER staring at your face. Next thing I hope you all have admissions to Unis hapa already lined up if you don't have a degree already. By the way your Kenyan degrees are takataka here, if you think you will come hapa and Microsoft is waiting to hire you with your Kenyatta Uni degree I really pity you. Worse, if you are planning to come hapa and not even get into Uni but just do odd jobs (CNA na kadhalika) allow me to laugh at you for ten minutes rafiki (LOOOL). There are legion Kenyans hapa who came and started doing those kazi ya mkono odd jobs and 30 years down the line they are walking zombies with broken dreams. The cost of living here in the States si mchezo..ati you see people driving big cars hapa and sending a few sumunis home that build the best looking house in your village and think they are doing well?? A car and living in a nice apartment are nothing here...even people on WELFARE drive SUV's and wear Gucci. Do not be mesmerized by those toys, you will come get used to them quick and get bored of them. But those who have them are paying through the nose, some working three jobs to sustain the loans they take to buy those hopeless things. Of course if you are working three jobs to pay basic bills you have no time to go to school. Utakwama hapo hapo tu and join the host of hundreds of thousands if not millions of miserable alcoholic Kenyans here rotting at the underclass of American society. The only difference is you will be a depressed Gucci wearing SUV driving zombie but with a greencard while many of them don't have GC's.

Next thing, America is on decline watu wangu. The economy is in the worst shape in its history. In fact it is easier to get rich in Kenya than it is here. In Kenya some of us diasporans who bought worthless plots around Nairobi and coast in the 90s and early 00's for example are sitting really pretty. Nowhere in the world can you make such easy money as in Kenya. Unemployment hapa is running high except of course for matako wipers (LoL) McDonalds workers and the like. The Kenyans with degrees from Harvard and so on are actually heading home as the bail ship with the economic crises happening hapa. Unless matako wiping is your destiny you should think twice about coming here if you have a great job and a few investments nyumbani. If you have NOTHING at home then you have nothing to lose so by all means come to America and enjoy the bone chilling freezing weather and hostile people here!

Some of us tumeona America mpaka tumechoka, name it we have done it, we struggled the early years but stuck to school while others went the CNA route. The excitement that you guys are feeling for this place we lost it over a decade ago. The only thing we value about USA now is our US passports that let us in anywhere around the world. Kujeni tu muwe the new immigrant masufferers kiasi kidogo shauri yenu but you are in for tough times if you arent already a) very financially comfy b) planning to get into uni immediately you land or c) if you are leaving a good job and comfy life expecting to come here and get corporate jobs easy.

Ni mimi tu

Mombasa_Guy headed back to my retirement kibanda by the beach hapo Mombasa rahaaa

From this storo, i decided to read only one sentence...the last one. Happy retirement Mister.

 

[Karendi]

It is unfortunate that one old man comes in and starts rubbishing people's dream and journey to America. Instead of you sir telling us what to do when we get there because we are all set to come there whether you like it or NOT you just endlessly discourage people with a venom spit.

Dubai-b, Sm1smom, AhWah, and others who are in the US have been telling us the real life and what to expect not excluding the harsh environment and culture we will face during the first year. They have told us all the good and bad things to expect some have even told us to see if we can settle or we get back if we find it will be difficult for us but we will only do this if we face the bull by its horn.

You sir, what you do is discourage even before we get there. We came to this forum to get advice on what to expect and what to do when we are in the US. Yes we thank you for telling us to get to University and get the American degree which i guess we will all do.

Let me ask you, what do you expect us to do in order to sustain ourselves while we are in the University there, how do we get to pay the fee and eat if we cant do the *** wiping jobs, dish washing, standing long hours in the retail shops as attendants we know we have to do all the odd jobs so please give us good advices and stop laughing at us.

You really want to look great and fly but you are telling the wrong group NOT withstanding how sarcastic you are. Sir get the hell out of our forum or do your best as a senior not a young man who just got rich overnight.

You are a serpent snake. You are Jealous Dream Stealer, These are the people that life has passed by. They gave up any opportunity to live their dreams and they can't stand to see you succeed where they failed. Are seeking to steal or destroy the dreams of others in the process. How childish!

You dont appreciate anything, you have no gratitude. All you want is people to be content with their mediocre life so that when you come over to Kenya they worship you.

My forum mates, be alert: There are dream stealers all around you and I. They may even be in your family. But do not allow them to steal the dream that, once achieved, will even bless the thieves who endeavoured to rob you of your life’s destiny.

We subject All dream stealers under the feet of Jesus...hawawesmake!! I am laughing all the way to the US and during because I am soo blessed and great things await us. Let us not be shaken or doubt!
Thanks Makiki dear, these are good words of caution.
Hugs

 

[KarimiEva]

GFF!! What has been happening over the weekend? Did i just read someone saying a persons mother's womb was stinking? What the hell?? Its just a forum for crying out loud, its NEVER THAT SERIOUS!

Ok, lets all exhale....Mombasa guy might have a point or two but then again there is a better way of saying it without insulting anyone. Once you give your advice LEAVE IT AT THAT...its upto us to decide to take or not. Either way, Mombasa guy is bitter and resentful but there is hope in Christ Jesus.

All the months I have been in this forum I have not seen such magnitude of insults and lack of respect to each other. Lets respect each other and avoid insults and negative energy.

Lord have mercy!!

NEWS SHOT: WE ARE ALL SUCCESSFUL, GOD HANDPICKED US AMONG MILLIONS FOR A REASON. HE SAID YES AND WHEN HE SAYS YES, NO ONE, NOT A DEMON OR A GOVT OR EVEN AN ECONOMY OF THIS WORLD CAN SAY NO.

I'm also shocked with what i'm reading...
Let us be positive people, this forum has given me so much info (though i'm not so active).
God always has the best plans for his people.
Negativity doesn't help in any way.

 

[PAPASAN]

THIS DV THING!!..I tend to think its very torturous..why? because you cant plan especially if you have decided that you gonna go for it..the worst part is to wait for the appointment and much worse if you are put under AP..guys with lower cases are lucky coz they get to know their fate soonest..anyway have a lovely day forumites

 

[uganda1]

Reality check

Guys and gals
ha ha ha ha ha ha! You see! If you are already crying at my direct approach, my normal ordinary telling you how it is here in America then you will be gnashing teeth proper once you get here!!! Don't come here with your Kenyan 'humility' thinking you will get ahead in this society. American culture is AGGRESSIVE, OPINIONATED AND TO THE POINT, if you come here thinking you will shuffle around looking at your feet, unable to take both constructive advice nor criticism however misplaced you think it is then I feel sorry for you kabisa kabisa. IT'S NOTHING PERSONAL. The only person asking sensible questions is DonMisty. Rafiki to answer you ...absolutely YES it is possible! That is why you should be applying RIGHT NOW so that you do not land here like a deer in headlights ready to be CONSUMED ALIVE by America once you land here like most clueless GC lottery winners from Kenya we see landing here miaka nenda miaka rudi. As for the fellow talking about ati Kenyan degrees are not takataka (LOOOOOOOL) bring that KU degree hapa and come apply to Microsoft, Cisco, Morgan Stanley etc and lets see how far you go. My friend they will throw your cv to the bottom of the dustbin. Just because your sister got hired as a science teacher (of all things) or university professor at a community college or takataka state university earning $50k a year (I know that sounds like a fortune to some of you back in Kenya) does not mean you can get hired in the corporate world here without an American degree. I know this is terrible news for you and your ego but I am telling you the REALITY of things hapa, whether you chose to listen is on you. Yes I have worked the odd job circuit during my undergraduate years but I never wiped ***! I am not discouraging you from working them if you MUST do so to survive when you first get here but please WORK THEM WHILE YOU ARE ENROLLED IN SCHOOL otherwise you will be WASTING TIME my friends. If you think you will do odd jobs and "save" and then launch from savings after a few years then you hold the empty pipe dream that millions of Kenyans before you had when they landed on these shores and who are now on prescription depression pills scattered all across this country. Its your prerogative to come to America but please do not do so coming in with rose tinted glasses about how everything will fall in place on your lap once you descend upon the land of opportunity. I know a lot of things are hard to understand if you have not experienced them but get here and with the benefit of experience you will look back and say this strange Mombasa_Guy character was telling us the truth, the truth and nothing but the pure truth. Hopefully you will not be muttering that while holding on to a mop in the lobby of the Atlanta Marriott Marquis like those desolate looking Kenyans I saw there juzi in their cleaners uniforms looking weatherbeaten by the harsh realities of life in this America you so crave to come to after living here for decades.

Hi all,

I'm not sure why members are taking issue with Mombasa_guy's contribution. This forum is about sharing experiences, not just in applying for the GC, but also in life in the US. Not all experiences will be good, some people will fail to get the DV, we still want to hear about it, so it helps those of us still waiting to prepare better. Similarly, even for those that make it to the US, some will struggle, and we also want to know about it, so we can be realistic in our plans.

He is giving examples of what is actually happening on the ground, and I've seen this to be true. Its absolutely true that when you go to the US you can succeed and its great to know what people have done to achieve that, but it is equally true that the dream can turn out to be a nightmare and its great that he is pointing this out. And he is giving you pointers from his personal experience and what he has seen happening to people around him over the years. For instance, he suggests that instead of focusing on getting the CNA (which for most of us, is not a field we are currently involved in), consider starting to apply now to get into uni for a US degree in your currently field. For those with degrees already, maybe a post-graduate diploma may be sufficient.

Its not that your degree is inferior, but the US employer doesn't know enough about it to trust that you have the training he/she requires, so they will prioritise the US degree job applicants. But if you have the US academic documentation as well, you might even find yourself at an "advantage" over a US applicant, because you also have your work experience from here.

That said, any reference to abusive language is unwarranted, MG and all, please keep it clean. We are all just trying to help each other, but only GOD holds our future.

 

[Karendi]

Hi all,

I'm not sure why members are taking issue with Mombasa_guy's contribution. This forum is about sharing experiences, not just in applying for the GC, but also in life in the US. Not all experiences will be good, some people will fail to get the DV, we still want to hear about it, so it helps those of us still waiting to prepare better. Similarly, even for those that make it to the US, some will struggle, and we also want to know about it, so we can be realistic in our plans.

He is giving examples of what is actually happening on the ground, and I've seen this to be true. Its absolutely true that when you go to the US you can succeed and its great to know what people have done to achieve that, but it is equally true that the dream can turn out to be a nightmare and its great that he is pointing this out. And he is giving you pointers from his personal experience and what he has seen happening to people around him over the years. For instance, he suggests that instead of focusing on getting the CNA (which for most of us, is not a field we are currently involved in), consider starting to apply now to get into uni for a US degree in your currently field. For those with degrees already, maybe a post-graduate diploma may be sufficient.

Its not that your degree is inferior, but the US employer doesn't know enough about it to trust that you have the training he/she requires, so they will prioritise the US degree job applicants. But if you have the US academic documentation as well, you might even find yourself at an "advantage" over a US applicant, because you also have your work experience from here.

That said, any reference to abusive language is unwarranted, MG and all, please keep it clean. We are all just trying to help each other, but only GOD holds our future.

Thanks Ugandan guy, you are the sober one here. And just like I keep saying ' ITS NOT SERIOUS' its just a forum no need for all the emotions.
Good info.