Register for our panel: Applying to Colleges as a Long-Term Visa Holder! Current students Shristi Sharma (UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University) and Bhavey Jain (Purdue University) will discuss their high school careers, application process as a dependent visa holder, and student visa navigation. Link to register: https://lnkd.in/etysK9tm Moderated by Lakshmi Parvathinathan and Pareen Mhatre. Please DM if you have any questions!
Improve The Dream
非盈利组织
Advocating for Documented Dreamers, immigrants who are raised and educated in the US, without a path to citizenship.
关于我们
Improve The Dream, founded in 2017, is a youth-led organization that supports, empowers, and advocates for young immigrants, who have grown up in the United States as child dependents of visa holders, through engagement, education, resources, and research. Due to various issues in the immigration system, we don't have a clear path to citizenship. According to Improve The Dream's survey of affected individuals, we were brought to the United States at an average age of 5 and have been here for an average of over 12 years. More than 99% of us pursue higher education and 87% are pursuing STEM and health care fields. We are advocating for change that permanently ends "aging-out" and provides a path to citizenship for every child who grows up in the United States, regardless of status.
- 网站
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https://improvethedream.org
Improve The Dream的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 非盈利组织
- 规模
- 2-10 人
- 类型
- 非营利机构
- 创立
- 2017
- 领域
- Immigration和Advocacy
Improve The Dream员工
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Shristi Sharma
Robertson Scholar @ UNC Chapel Hill & Duke | Former NASA JPL Intern | ACM SIGBED Undergraduate Scholar
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Pareen Mhatre
Clinical Specialist I, Electrophysiology at Abbott | Board of Directors at Improve The Dream
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Fedora Castelino
Student at North Carolina State University | Author of The Carbon Frontier
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Anagh Kulkarni
MS2 at Duke University School of Medicine
动态
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"Many significant milestones and accomplishments have been tinted by this. When I turned 16, getting my driver’s license was an impossible task, not because I couldn’t parallel park, but because of the heavily bureaucratic process people like me have to go through to demonstrate lawful status. When I turned 18, I couldn’t afford going to college. When I finally decided to take the leap of faith and go back to school, I was accumulating debt and dragging my family with it. When I turned 21, I had to leave the country and my family not knowing if I would come back. To this date, this has been a traumatizing experience. Now as I am nearing the end of my undergraduate degree, I may have to leave my family, friends and community behind if I am unable to find and secure employment. I am scared that everything and anything I have sacrificed, will be worth nothing. I am scared of leaving my family behind." -Andrea Solis (CA) Over 250,000 children of long-term visa holders face aging-out. Take action now by doing the following: 1. Go to https://lnkd.in/gjAxNb2s to autosend a letter to them in less than one minute. 2. Go to https://lnkd.in/gETCs2KZ to call your representatives and Senators. 3. Share this message and ask your friends, families, and others to learn more and take action at https://lnkd.in/gyunCx-U and https://ImproveTheDream.org
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