Beyond the U.S.
Beyond the U.S. is an Instagram Live series for undocumented people thinking about leaving the United States.
Resources: Employment-Based Immigration Visas for DACA Recipients
Click the links below to watch Part 1 on IG Live.
Grecia Huesca Dominguez: Grecia Huesca Dominguez is a poet, author of the children's book Dear Abuelo, mother to Iliana, and a DACA recipient. She moved from Veracruz, Mexico to NY in 1999.
Dr. Adossi: Dr. Adossi is originally from Togo and a serial migrant who is a U.S., and most recently, a Canadian, migrant. Her credentials include surviving America, thriving in soil not meant to feed her soul, and escaping economic slavery. She is currently a United Nations Consultant.
Sadhana Singh: Sadhana Singh lived as an undocumented immigrant in the US for about 20 years, 8 of those years with DACA. After graduating from college at the age of 32 with help from TheDream.us Scholarship, she relocated to Toronto, Canada where she now serves as Senior Communications Manager for TheDream.us.
Click the links below to watch Part 2 on IG Live.
Berenice Villegas: Berenice is a Mexican immigrant who migrated to the U.S. at the age of 13 and is currently finishing an MPH degree in France. She decided to leave the U.S. in 2012 after being granted a European scholarship to pursue her first Master's in Evolutionary Biology because she no longer wanted her life to be in the hands of politicians and wanted to chase after her dream of traveling around the world.
Madai Zamora: Madai is a former DACA recipient who has been living in Mexico for two years. She is an English teacher and a vocera for Otros Dreams En Acción (ODA). She has a vlog on YouTube called Diary of a Native Foreigner.
Ebony Bailey: Ebony is a Blaxican documentary filmmaker, photographer and writer from Central California based in Mexico. She tells stories as a way to contribute to the representation and empowerment of marginalized communities.
Beleza Chan: After living in the U.S. for seven and a half years from high school until post-university, and without hopes of seeing immigration reform passed, Beleza decided to return to her home country Brazil. Later, she moved to China for an MBA program. Beleza recently returned to the U.S. after her family's petition and 10-year bar waiver were approved. She is currently starting her own educational technology startup to help children learn English using AI technology. She is also co-leading the Opportunities Outside the US Project with Immigrants Rising.
Kelly Villanueva: Kelly Villanueva migrated to the U.S. from Peru when she was 5 years old. Kelly graduated from Roanoke College with a double major in International Relations and Spanish Literature. She moved back to Lima, Peru in 2011. Kelly serves as a senior U.S. college admissions adviser and scholarship coordinator in the largest binational center in Peru. For the last 9 years, Kelly has helped talented Peruvian students successfully apply to and gain admission to top undergraduate and graduate programs across the U.S.
Maggie Loredo: Maggie Loredo is a mujer retornada born in Mexico, raised undocumented in Texas and Georgia and has now been living in Mexico for 12 years. She is an activist and co-founding director of Otros Dream en Acción better known as ODA. ODA is a grassroots organization based in Mexico City by and for those that were also born in Mexico, grew up or lived many years undocumented in the United States and have been back to Mexico because of deportation, the deportation of a family member, or because of the threat of deportation.