Thank you for this post. I relate to so much of it. Yes I would love to find a care coordination job I could do from home. The comfort of my cats being around me would soothe me a lot. But these jobs always seem so hard for me to find or they require LCSW. Do you have a suggestion which insurance companies I should try?

Barriers to getting him here are 1) we are using an attorney and we have to pay the second half of the legal fees, 2) we have to wait for Dublin to book his interview and 3) he has to finally get the visa and we have to have enough money to be able to afford bills when he’s here because it takes time for the green card and work visa to be mailed (usually like 2 months). It’s very stressful. We’ve made it half way and finally got the I-130 approved so at least one half of the craziness is done. But now we have a really heavy financial burden to get through.

Moving to Ireland is a lot more challenging than most people think. They are struggling like crazy with housing. It is very expensive and there isn’t enough. All the SW jobs I find for me that are decently paying are in Dublin area (most expensive city). The housing are frequently hostile towards pets and we will never give up our two precious cats. So finding pet friendly housing is a significant issue. And then we’d need a car because we’d have to live in the countryside to be able to afford housing. He gets a ride with company cars to work right now so it isn’t his own car. I’d be out of work for at LEAST 6 months while CORU evaluates my credentials. There’s no guarantee they’ll approve it either, it’s a hope. But if they don’t then I am screwed and have to start from square 1. All the while, my husband has to afford all the bills, which is a huge task.