New Year's Resolutions & My Partner's Path to Citizenship
I have learned from my partner of over a decade that as an immigrant, he learned as a child to think about the big picture. He grew up in Egypt, and had a love for computers. As a child, he decided that he wanted to move to the United States and become a software engineer. His father's friend purchased him his first computer in the early nineties, and the desire to move toward his dreams grew. He studied English, focused on his education, and worked with his parents to find a path toward college in the US. He did not qualify for student loans as a foreign citizen, and attended a very small college in Alabama. This college was the most affordable path for him and while it is not widely recognized, this leap at the age of 18 set him toward this bucket list goal. He struggled to keep up due to the language barrier, but found a core group of friends among the other "foreign students." He worked to support himself by repairing computers at the homes of professors, using hi...
