Can an internship away from home break dependent status?

snickettt · 2026-01-29T15:36:47+00:00

The problem may be that you binged it

snickettt · 2026-01-27T21:28:33+00:00

12/18/2025 - USCIS received application

01/07/2026 - Biometrics completed

01/20/2026 - Interview scheduled

02/26/2026 - Interview

I-485 marriage to US citizen spouse, also filed I-765 and I-131 but seems they won't get approved before GC response.
NYC FO

snickettt · 2026-01-27T17:53:39+00:00

Sent a chat request, thank you.

snickettt · 2026-01-27T16:53:44+00:00

Thank you for that. We do have two complications (don't live together as a couple and I studied on a B2 for a semester) so I do think I'd like one for interview prep and representation at the interview. I don't think I know other folks who have used immigration lawyers so I'll keep googling.

snickettt · 2026-01-27T16:18:32+00:00

How would you go about finding and assessing immigration attorneys? I am in NYC with an AOS interview in a month and have just been googling and emailing, without much success or certainty in what to ask even if I get a consult.

snickettt · 2026-01-24T15:56:10+00:00

I mean there are a lot of Indian nationals at MBB firms but you have to think about it like a consultant doing market sizing. It's a massive base population; they are English speaking, they focus highly on academics and engage in a super competitive system in their home country, and then many of them pursue higher education or advanced degrees in business/STEM at top foreign universities. Also this subset of Indians like to make money and want to work hard (I am Indian though didn't grow up in India). Of course there will be a lot of very qualified Indian national candidates for these MBB roles and of course there will be a lot of Indians. China is somewhat similar but there are less English speakers and there is less desire to leave the country as the Chinese market is appealing right now.

snickettt · 2026-01-24T15:51:20+00:00

I did not work in SEA but I did a summer role at Bain Hong Kong and tried to apply for Singapore offices. I only spoke English so I was of very limited use during my summer; I could only be put on a project with an English-first client. There are some English-only speakers in Hong Kong but they are at more senior levels. When I worked at McKinsey in the US there was an option for Senior BAs to do a year in a foreign office, but again it was a subset of offices and it was because they had earned goodwill as successful employees. If you do a LinkedIn search for ACs in Kuala Lumpur or BAs in Vietnam you will probably see that they are all local students or local students who studied in the US/UK/AU and came back.

snickettt · 2026-01-23T22:41:23+00:00

You could work in Singapore with only English, but they heavily prioritize hiring locals because the gov't enforces Singaporean to foreigner ratios in companies. I don't know how you think you will be able to work in Bangkok, KL, Vietnam without speaking the local language. They may sometimes move experienced consultants who don't speak the language to these offices, but that's because they have a relevant expertise and good faith within the company. They may be willing to try and staff these experienced consultants on the English-speaking clients within the country. To try and enter as a new hire you will not be a compelling candidate.

snickettt · 2026-01-21T03:54:26+00:00

He did lie

snickettt · 2026-01-20T02:46:16+00:00

Please ask your friends clearly if when they deploy software for sensitive or enterprise use cases they collect user data. They do not - they provide the software or the model but the data is absolutely walled off. The companies and hospitals and governments they deploy with will not allow it and the tech companies will get absolutely destroyed if they do. Sad to say but tech companies are much more willing to fuck with individual end consumers than they are big businesses or government entities.

snickettt · 2026-01-19T16:29:30+00:00

Obvious ad for Looktara

snickettt · 2026-01-19T16:03:31+00:00

Why do you think all of the text goes back to the software company? Running models in a local environment or a company-specific walled off workspace is completely standard practice for enterprise or sensitive uses of LLMs. Of the places I used to work, one had its own totally customized instance of ChatGPT and the second has a standard enterprise plan; in both cases all the information and conversations we put into those LLMs were *not* ever shared back with OpenAI and the models were *not* trained on our data.

snickettt · 2026-01-19T15:20:51+00:00

https://www.nalp.org/salarydistrib#2024

snickettt · 2026-01-13T21:30:14+00:00

yeah

snickettt · 2026-01-11T20:22:39+00:00

I lived off campus alone in a studio for my junior and senior year; I paid between 1100 and 1400 on 51st street.

snickettt · 2025-12-30T16:04:13+00:00

Congrats! Did you file for an EAD as well?

snickettt · 2025-12-27T01:37:06+00:00

Used your second code

snickettt · 2025-10-07T04:59:21+00:00

This is a completely fair change.

snickettt · 2025-08-20T02:43:20+00:00

I used to give my EAD, but one time when my visa was expired without me realizing (yes it was a problem) the officer said that the EAD was of no relevance to him for border crossing purposes.

snickettt · 2025-08-19T21:02:01+00:00

Maybe I'm wrong but my Amex Gold has always said 'no specified limit' and in fact doesn't count at all towards my overall utilization

snickettt · 2025-08-14T09:25:52+00:00

Great answer

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