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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services - the former INS website: http://uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm

U.S. Department of State: http://www.state.gov/

U.S. Small Business Administration: http://www.sba.gov/

PBS - Public television: www.pbs.org
PBS is a private, non-profit media enterprise owned and operated by the nation's 349 public television stations. A trusted community resource, PBS uses the power of noncommercial television, the Internet and other media to enrich the lives of all Americans through quality programs and education services that inform, inspire and delight.

National Public Radio: www.npr.org

Women Transcending Boundaries: www.wtb.org
As they put it, WTB is a group for women with "complicated questions".

Easy Expat - International Relocation
Help for expatriates on overseas moving and relocation abroad (Paris, London, Sydney, San Francisco, Montreal, New York, Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan): accommodation, jobs, international schools, health.

Expat Expert
Robin Pascoe is the Expat Expert. Traveling spouses, relocation specialists, international schools and corporate offices worldwide applaud her pragmatic but sensitive approach to the joys and challenges of families and global relocation. She is deeply committed to helping families, and spouses in particular, make the most of the sometimes challenging privilege of living, working and raising a family abroad.

Expat Focus - international living advice, employment overseas, buying property abroad, international insurance and expatriate mortgages
Join our lively expat community today! Get help finding international insurance cover, overseas property, job opportunities abroad and investment advice, including pensions and retirement planning. Keep in touch with other expats through our forum, email discussion list and monthly newsletter.


Expatriates.com - community ads, resource directory, and forum for expatriates.

Transitions Abroad :
 
For over 27 years, "the single most useful and important" guide to work abroad, study abroad, immersion travel overseas and international living - Association of International Educators.

 

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Turn to our "Interviews" page for conversations on various topics concerning the life of an immigrant (first generation or otherwise) including love / dating. Click here.

If you want to contribute to the conversation and send us your personal opinion, stories or experiences click here.

 



 

 



 

 

 


 

 


FEATURED BOOK:

Disappearance of the Outside: A Manifesto for Escape

by Andrei Codrescu
Taking into account his own exile from Stalinist Romania, as well as the plights of such greats as Garcia Marquez, Breton, Dada, Kundera, and Milosz, Codrescu issues a call for those living in a free society to reach beyond a benign reality founded in technology and commercialism by tapping into their imaginations and striving for a better, evolutionary existence.


Check out our Sentimental Refugee Arts and Fun Store featuring cartoons, illustrated stories and traditions from world cultures!

Job Interview Framed Panel Print
"Job Interview" Cartoon: what happens when Mr. Naheed applies for a job in the United States

"A life without love is like  Mug
"A life without love is like a year without summer." Illustrated Swedish proverb.


Vodka and Caviar Baseball Jersey

From Russia: Vodka and Caviar. It's Party Time! Click here.

 Woodseller wife Framed Panel Print
From Japan: An illustrated love story about a beautiful wife. Click here.

 


FEATURED INTERVIEW:

Sonia Choquette. (first generation born in the USA)
"The first thing to say about the experience of an immigrant is that people are like a tree whose roots have been cut off. Fortunately the human spirit is regenerative but only if you acknowledge that you have suffered a major psychic wound, even if you move under the best of conditions. So you can build new roots." Read more...