The advice you need isn't in the immigration Facebook groups.
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It's knowing what your first Social Security Number means for the next decade of your credit. It's the conversation you need to have with your mother before you go — not after you're already gone and homesick.
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I write Dear Immigrant because I couldn't find what I was looking for: honest, specific guidance from someone who had actually made the move from Nairobi to the US. Not a lawyer. Not a government website. Someone who had been in the matatu and the Dulles customs line.
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The free guide is where that conversation starts.