A Zimbabwe Girl Beats Impossible Odds In The USA!!!!

After finishing my gym workout last night, I got a wonderful surprise. I checked my emails on my Burberry. There was an email from Mandy Findlater. She had received notification from the US authorities that her application for a Green Card (permanent residence) had been accepted.

Green Card applications are accepted every day in the USA. What was so different about this one?

In 1999, Mandy sold her unit (condominium) in Harare, Zimbabwe. She got $10,000 US dollars on a quick sale . She got on the plane. She ended up at San Francisco international airport. It was at the height of the technology boom. It was and is one of the most expensive places in the world to live. I can tell you from personal experience that $10,000 does not go far here.

Mandy went to a hotel room. She started to look for a job. She had experience in the freight business. She found a freight company to sponsor her. She got her work permit and went to work.

At this moment, Mandy and I met. I was then working at a telecom company in San Jose, California. Mandy came by on a sales call. She did not make a sale on the call. But we hit it off as friends. After all, we both had been "Out of Africa."

Over the yeas Mandy worked hard. She became a top performer at her freight company. As the years went by the painful wait for the Green Card continued. Conditions deteriorated in her home country of Zimbabwe. She had to start send food packages home to sustain her family. Over the years Mandy also saw several other employees at her company get fired and lose their US work permits.

In March of 2008, a seeming disaster happened. Mandy's employer fired her. This was before her Green Card was issued. It appeared that Mandy would find herself on the plane back to Zimbabwe.

My wife and I own a small company. We were prepared to offer her a very humble job. We were determined to do everything legally possible to stop her deportation.

Mandy refused to let this set back stop her. She got right back up on her feet and went out and found a great job with another freight company.

What a glorious day it was when she got her good news!!!

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