I met a man who had been the principal of a school in his native country before emigrating to the US, where he was a janitor at a strip mall

because none of his qualifications were recognized in the US, so he had taken the first job he could find. He was in his late fifties when I met him, has poor health, and I don’t know how long he has been in the US at that point. His US visa was not employment based nor education based, it was family based. He was not in a position to both take the necessary courses and then get certified to the same socio-economic status he had once enjoyed. He told me that many American citizens had entered his country seeking high-end jobs and their credentials were immediately accepted, often without question or scrutiny, and that while the cost of living and salaries didn’t compare to the US, they lived at an upperclass level there.
  Do you personally know any immigrants to your country whose lives almost instantly took a drastic negative direction due to those types of circumstances?
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