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Maryskova sent out hundreds of résumés, but every time she made the final cut the prospect told her that they couldn’t take the risk by sponsoring her visa.
“I’m high performing, I’m educated, but I can’t find a job,” said Maryskova. “So I went to Walmart and started there.”
She worked overnight and trained during the day while helping her former coach at Northwest Nazarene recruit international athletes.
“It was overwhelming, but I saw it the way it was supposed to happen this way and I just kept going,” said Maryskova.
Two days before her visa expired in March 2020, she connected a colleague from Maryskova with an immigration attorney and she began applying for her permanent citizenship.
“It all kind of crashed on me”
Idaho was on lockdown once the coronavirus pandemic broke out in March 2020. As the pandemic continued, the already slow immigration process almost came to a standstill.
Four months after submitting her application for the EB1 Green Card, Maryskova received a grammatical error-riddled request for additional evidence that she described as “mind-boggling and frustrating.”
“The officer apparently did not look through any of the evidence I sent with the application, and the letter mentioned that football training and football matches are not related,” said Maryskova.
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