Client
Millie Mac
Services
O1 visa coaching, O1 visa agent sponsor
Year
2021
Millie Mac came to the United States as an F-1 student from Saigon, Vietnam. Her artistic achievements as a graphic designer, artist, and art education are outstanding, but she needed customized coaching to improve her profile to qualify for the O1 visa that will allow her freedom to work and live in the United States, where she has called home for many years. She holds a Master’s degree in Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, followed by a second Master’s degree in Entrepreneurship for the Creatives from Columbia College Chicago. Through individualized coaching she received from Top Immigrants, she successfully obtained the O1 visa sponsored by an agent and is now enjoying a fulfilling creative career in Chicago where she is based.
Mac said: “The pressure is intense when searching for employment and visa sponsorship, having to prove that you’re qualified as a foreign worker in the U.S. within a year after graduating, and meeting visa-related expenses. The most difficult part of the entire process is dealing with rejection from employers that, understandably, do not want to risk investing thousands of dollars in sponsoring an entry-level candidate who has no prior job experience beyond the school they recently graduated from. Not to mention how difficult it is to stay afloat and thrive in such a non-lucrative creative industry, it hurt me to see my peers give up and go back to their home countries when their visas expired. I’ve come a long way to be an O-1 visa holder in the midst of the Covid era.”
