Losing hope trying to follow my dream. can ANYONE help??

Hmmm...First of all, i am a SHE and 2nd of all, i have a DEC in Special Care counselling. That is all i will say to you AGN. I came here for help, not to be insulted and put down.

Thank-you for your help DREMANI! I had already thought about seeking a job im my field, close to Kanab and volunteering at Best Friends. i have a cousin who can sponsor me. I didn't see My exact profession (or what i have a degree for, which is special care counselling) on the NAFTA list though..i do have over 30 yrs experience of that counts for something..

A DEC will not get you TN in this field.
So, you are not eligible for a TN, and your cousin cannot sponsor your for family visa (or they would have done so years ago, no?).... and Dremani was the one who first suggested your were male.

If your cousin was able to sponsor you for an H1-B (meaning they own a large company) -- which is what I suggested in the first place -- why did you make yourself sound so desperate?! Sounds fishy.

Marriage route is still your best option.

Bye-bye.

Well, immigrating to the US is obviously in the cards for our poster so we will leave it up to her. (Sorry for assuming you were a male,,,my bad:))Let's try and be optimistic shall we? We don't know her situation so we cannot come to our own conclusion as to whether or not "immigrating is for her".

So apparently, the education is there as stated by our poster...So, alright then, that counts for something. A DEC I have no knowledge about but in this case, asking a professional would be best.

Plus to my recollection, every 3 yrs of professional experience compensates for one yr of education right? Hmmm... I say she should explore every avenue possible until it's no longer an option. But thats just my opinion:)

To our poster

The only thing is, cousins cannot sponsor PR. In your case it would def have to be marriage. Brother, sister, mother, father would only take yrs but I assume that isn't the case for you.

And you are welcome. Keep an open mind about these things. It can be real challenging and tiresome but do not give up until you know for certain it's impossible.

Best of luck to you!

wow AGN...you seem a tad bitter. You know nothing about me. This is a recent decision for me and i knew NOTHING about the process, but i am trying to learn. I have lost almost everyone i loved in the last 6 or 7 yrs..i have given 210% to the ENGLISH corporation i work for and the ENGLISH clients i work with for almost 30 yrs. now they tell us we can't have a full time "position" unless we are bilingual. There is nothing left for me here anymore. I have researching Best Friends for years now, but never seriously considered moving to the US until now. There is nothing "fishy" going on. I am just ignorant about all this and came here for advice. Obviously, that was a mistake. Bye Bye to you too.

Dremani, thanks for being human.. I didn't know that cousins cant sponsor. I have no other family there, unfortunately. The only family i have left here are a grown neice and nephew. I'm sorry for my stupidity in this matter, i guess i really need to do a lot more reading on the subject.

It's not possible to know about everything so don't feel bad. I would try Gramsmick.com. He gives great TN advice. Murthy Law firm can also answer your questions if you send him an email.

Experience only replace degree for H1. Some TN categories allow DEC (which is a qc cegep diploma), but not the TN category she would be looking at.

sorry that she is wasting her time and feelings.

Experience only replace degree for H1.

There's no particular reason why the OP couldn't eventually aim for an H-1B. When a dream is proving difficult to achieve, sometimes the thing to do is to take a step in the direction of the dream and see where it leads you. In this case, there would be nothing wrong with hezb spending some time in Utah volunteering at this place. I presume this is a field where volunteer work is common (even if hezb has an ultimate goal of paid work), and volunteering as a visitor to the USA is fine if the work is generally done by volunteers.

Then network with people and see if you can find out the lay of the land in your current field--by this I mean special care counseling--in that part of the country. If you can get to know people in your field sometimes doors will open--both in terms of getting a job and in terms of getting a visa--that you might not have known about before.

I'm all in favor of following a dream, but this sounds like a fairly new dream, at least in terms of moving to the USA. Sometimes it takes time to achieve a dream and sometimes you have to show that you're willing to take the first steps before people will open further doors to you.

Finally, I'm sure you're aware of this, but just to be sure--I assume that you are aware that the day may come when you are asked to learn how to speak Spanish if you move to the USA in a field involving dealing with the public in any capacity. The Spanish-speaking population is increasing in the USA and I could see this eventually being true even in Utah. I'm unilingual myself but I'm also aware that Spanish language education may be in my future.

Sometimes being blunt and honest comes across as being an ass. I should know. I do not come here to tell people what they want to hear, that is what you pay a shady lawyer for. I, like AG come here to help people when possible, and tell people the truth about what they can do and what they cannot do. AG helps countless amounts of people for no fee. In this situation, there is just no possible way to legally move to the USA, other than an H1B. A TN is completely out of the question. Sometimes hearing things you do not want to hear, hurts. Our laws are not set up to make it a cake walk to move here, and not everyone can. It's just the way it goes.

Thank-you for the advice everybody.