Thanks to those who have commented so warmly :-)
One of the big problems we have is we are barely legal immigrants in the USA. (I am still p*ssy about being a subordinate alien.) We only have visas to be in the country for as long as Nathan is employed in his current role at HP.
As soon as his employment terminates, we have 60 days to leave the country (I thought it was 30days but one source says 60 days). Yes, we can apply for other jobs but the time taken in recruitment is over a month and then the visas take about two months to come through assuming the US govt decides to be nice. In the mean time, we have absolutely no income, no savings and outgoings of $2100 a month simply to pay our mortgage at home and the rent that we are obliged to pay here. No food, no bills paid or any little extras like cold weather clothing that we don't have.
If we go back home, we are very unlikely to come back again. Why would we? We have very few friends here, no family, the US govt is extremely obstructionist in issuing work permits for subsidiary aliens (ie I can't work).... At home both of us are allowed to work, even if we don't have jobs, we are eligible for the dole, we have family to bot off if it comes to it.
Nathan doesn't quite have a job offer from another Silly Valley company. They want him badly. We are trying to tough it out here for as long as possible and then work from there.
It is all in the lap of the gods at the moment and I *really* hate that.
2 comments:
Goodness me that is utter utter pants! Why would a company uproot people half way across the world if only to drop them a short while later. Bestest of luck with finding another job, we'll be thinking of you.
I really really hope this works out for you!
Fingers crossed for Nathan's job situation.
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