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Immigrant Success Stories: Niloufar Abaei
Friday | September 17, 2021 | by Wilma Lee
World Education Services (WES) believes in the power of storytelling and shared resources. In 2019, we reached out to immigrants across North America. We asked about their reasons for leaving home, their challenges along the way, and the advice they would like to ...
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Friday | August 20, 2021 | by Marcia Barroso
Anas Farhoud remains optimistic in the face of adversity. He and his wife, Razan, left Syria and moved from one country to another for a full decade before finally settling with their two daughters in Canada in 2020. But he never lost faith ...
Read MoreImmigrant Success Stories: Valerie Sargisyan
Wednesday | August 18, 2021 | by Wilma Lee
World Education Services (WES) believes in the power of storytelling and shared resources. In 2019, we reached out to immigrants across North America. We asked about their reasons for leaving home, their challenges along the way, and the advice they would like to ...
Read MoreUSCIS: F-1 Students No Longer Need to File COS Extensions
Thursday | July 22, 2021 | by WES Advisor
This week, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a policy update that is intended to lessen the burden on those hoping to complete a change of status (COS) and enroll as international students. The new policy states that nonimmigrants do ...
Read MoreSpotlight on Success: Nada El Masry
Thursday | June 24, 2021 | by WES Advisor
In honor of World Refugee Day on June 20, learn about one of our grantee partners with the WES Mariam Assefa Fund. Nada El Masry’s family fled Palestine during its vicious ethnic cleansing effort in the 1960s. Displaced to Libya, they were denied ...
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