Can I request that my immigration status gets adjusted so that it will no longer keep less-competitive jobs away from me as it has done for the past 25 years?

The main barrier, which has prevented me from becoming gainfully employed for the past 25 years that I have been trapped by my immigration status, which still labels me as a foreign alien and hence legally prevents me to work less competitive jobs, such as IT, Tech Support or Remote Customer Services. I know so many other Albinos struggling with the same visual problems as I am, who conveniently earn $3,000 per month by working as remote Customer Service agents for Apple. They are allowed to work from their home, where they can have their large screens and magnification software, which allows them to take remote control of their clients' Apple products to train any Apple costumer in using any of the Apple products of their choice. Unfortunately, US Immigration Laws would never approve me for such kind of easy stress-free jobs because my duties are not related to my academic training.

Here is my question: If my current immigration status has prevented me from finding real jobs for the past 25 years am I entitled to petition for getting my immigration status adjusted because otherwise - although most authorities would probably never consider it as discrimination - my past 25 years of unemployment provide plenty of evidence - that my foreign immigration status affects me at least as adversely as discrimination would because it deprives me of any feasible employment options. The only reason why I am getting my PhD is because my immigration status has prevented me from finding a job. Even as a foreigner I am entitled to reasonable accommodations to help me in compensating for any problems in order to allow me to become gainfully employed despite any individual limitations, which may prevent me from ever succeeding in competing for jobs with more than 100 much better qualified applicants. If I were Albert Einstein or Dr. Steve Hawkins, I probably could easily succeed in getting hired even for the most competitive bioinformatics positions. Unfortunately, I need to admit that I lack the brain power, talent and intelligence for performing the same complex and challenging tasks as Steve Hawkins. Therefore, the options available to Steve Hawkins to compensate for the shortcomings of his disabilities effectively that they have no negative impact in his chances to get hired are simply not available to me because I am limited by my average intelligence. But although nobody has actively taken away from me the options, which are only available to Steve Hawkins - but not to me - and hence, I objectively lack valid grounds to accuse anyone of having actively discriminated against me, it is a misconception that if Steve Hawkins can get hired for intellectually extremely challenging jobs but I cannot would be sufficient evidence to imperatively rule out the possibility that I have been facing much more passive and almost imperceptible unjust legally imposed limitations, which have affect my life at least as adversely as if I had been actively discriminated against for the past 25 years because I have been legally forbidden as of this day to work the kind of jobs that are within my league and scope of cognitive capabilities. People have different strengths and weaknesses. However, nobody should be limited to jobs in areas, in which his job performance is weaker than average. If such as situation arises and cannot be remedied in any way affected candidates should be given access to jobs for which they have much better chances to get hired even if they are not related to the most recently completed academic training. The most recently earned degree should not exclude graduates from employment. Degrees should open but not close employment opportunities for any university graduates If their past degrees prevent graduates from getting jobs then they need to be provided with realistic employment alternatives because - like in my case - disabilities can cause loss of competitiveness totally independent from the scope, nature and content of any previously completed academic training. For example, if an international medical school graduate gets blinded in a car accident no immigration law should limit him/her to jobs in the medical field because nobody would hire/her as a blind medical surgeon regardless of his past scientific achievement and publication records. No US Immigration Laws should limit any internationals to jobs, for which he/she objectively lacks the essential jobs functions, which imperatively prevent him/her from performing all expected ob-responsibilities, such as performing complex brain surgeries have having lost his/her eyesight. Nobody, not even international students, who have lost their essential functions for performing the expected job-responsibilities or who - despite completing a degree - could never develop the essential job functions because of disability-induced limitation, should be limited to employment options if their lack of essential job functions to perform ob-responsibilities expected in their field of study because this affect their lives at least as adversely as any actively imposed forbidden discrimination because - such kind of unfair job limitations - inevitably causes the same negative consequences as any illegal active form of discrimination depriving anyone of realistic employment options solely based on their disabilities.

When making immigration laws we should also look at their effects instead of limiting our support to job-seekers, who can find jobs if they can be protected from the most obvious and direct forms of discrimination. Job accommodations can function at least in two ways:

1.) Ideally, they can restore all essential job functions to perform all job-responsibilities

2.) The can replace any job-responsibility,, which cannot be performed because the needed essential job-functions cannot be restored in any way, with job-responsibilities, which were initially assigned to other coworkers, if the disabled worker can be put in a position that allow him/her to perform all essential job-functions from performing their coworker's job-responsibilities, which were transferred to their new workload to replace the job-responsibilities, which had to be reassigned to their non-handicapped coworkers, because disability-induced or even any kind of other constraints prevented to restore disabled worker's essential job functions without he/she cannot perform the job-responsibilities, which therefore, had to be removed from disabled worker's workload and reassigned to other non-handicapped coworker.

If there is no way to restore sufficiently many essential job-functions for productive long-term employment in the area of most recent academic training for which an OPT was approved, disabled workers should not longer be limited to employment in the field of study if no accommodations are available to restore sufficiently many job function to keep working in field of most recent training.

For example, in theory, I could get hired for a bioinformatics job, although it’s highly unlikely. But if, for example, I lose all my eyesight, I have lost too many essential job-functions to keep working in bioinformatics even if I am already employed in this field. This would cause me to get fired and banned from America only three months later because I lack too many irreparable essential job functions for anyone to rehire me as a totally blind worker. But instead of this imperatively triggering expulsion from America because I objectively can no longer keep working in my field of study, my immigration status should be adjusted or I should be given more choices of jobs, I can still do without eyesight, such as writing.

Although - instead of refusing to help internationals, who can no longer work in their field of study, or who have failed often enough to conclude that despite their degree, their essential job functions are too poorly developed to ever get hired in their field again; thus, forcing them to leave America instead of opening up other less demanding job alternatives to them,

Actually, even the fact that anyone has earned a degree does in no way imply that he most have developed sufficiently many essential job-functions during his training, which would allow him to perform enough job-responsibilities to get hired.

For example, although I have an MS in Molecular Biology it does in no way apply that I had ever developed the essential job functions for performing wet-lab experiments well enough to perform any of my employer's job-responsibilities. My motivation for studying biology was to become immortal. But should my MS in Molecular Biology limit me to wet-lab jobs for which I obviously lacked too many essential job functions despite stubbornly denying it?

After I was found too slow in my wet-lab techniques in Dallas for remaining in their Biomedical PhD program I tried very hard to find a job with my OPT, which was issued to me for my MS degree in Molecular biology. But here was the problem. No other wet-lab would give me a new chance to hire me no matter how hard I tried to convince my interviewers that I could improve my essential job functions given more time, training and assistive devices because my old lab at UTSW refused to give me any good reference letter for applying at other jobs. I tried so hard to find jobs with my MS Biology degree that I landed a job interview as pharmaceutical representative. Unfortunately, I lacked the essential job-function of driving without which I could not perform the job-responsibility to visit with my clients in person and demonstrate them our new products. Unfortunately, there was no way to restore m driving function either.

I felt so desperate to find work that I applied as Biology Lecture at any Community College I could find because I felt very confident that I possessed all essential job function needed to perform the job-responsibility of teaching introductory Biology Classes especially since I very much enjoyed this work when I was A TA at Louisiana Tech University.

unfortunately, after spending lots of time applying for lecture jobs and learning about writing teaching statements I was told in my first job interview that none of these teaching positions was open to F-1 student visa holders with OPT work permit.

I became so disappointed and even suicidal because I strongly felt to deserve an exception and get special permission by USCIS to apply for biology teaching jobs because these were the only kind of jobs for which I possessed sufficiently many essential job-functions to perform all teaching-related job-responsibilities and for which Dr. Wakeman, my LA Tech Adviser provided me with very strong positive letters of recommendation praising my passion and talent for teaching while I was his TA; thus, making it much easier to get invited for job interviews for about half of the open teaching positions for which I applied. Unfortunately, although I had the impression that many of my interviewers would have loved to hire me, their hands were tied because they were strictly forbidden to hire international students on F-1 student visa with despite my OPT work permit, which made me fully eligible for working as an Instructor.

There was me with a MS degree yet imperatively unemployed. I had nobody to turn to. There was nobody to talk to at USCIS. I strongly felt during this time in 2010 that my immigration status ruined my life at least as devastatingly as if I had been actively discriminated against by being denied employment because I am disabled. My debilitating foreign student status, which feels worse than any stigma, prevented me from working the only kind of jobs, for which I could perform all job-responsibilities. Over time this caused me to feel very suicidal, apathetic and lethargic because I could do nothing, which could have restored my access wet-lab or pharmaceutical rep jobs if I had not been legally blind.. Since nobody wanted to write me strong references recommending me for either wet-lab or pharmaceutical rep work all employers in those fields discriminated against me refusing to hire me as soon as they noticed that I am legally blind. None of them even gave me the chance to prove myself to them by offering to work without pay to improve me wet-lab skills until me new still very skeptical bosses could start noticing any value even in my work because I felt confident that I given enough time, training and experience I my supervisors, who refused to give me any chance as soon as they discovered my disabilities, which I tried very hard to actively disguise during later job interviews because I had to make the very disappointing experience no employer would consider me seriously for any kind of work as soon as they realized that I deviated too much from the norm for any of them to at least give me a chance because some lab-techniques are much easier to learn and for some I may already possess the needed essential job-function to satisfy most of the expected job-responsibilities.

The lack of hop for this self-perception damaging loss of confidence goals and life's meaning, which everyone, who denied me because of my disabilities, caused to become even worse, was a form of imperceptible job-discrimination causing me to feel like a victim of disguised chronic and omnipresent hidden form of undetectable psychological warfare against which, despite strongly feeling its debilitating and suicide-inducing effects, it was very hard to formally complain with the Office of Civil Rights in Dallas because this kind of much harder to pinpoint job-discrimination was much harder to prove since nobody actually caused it. It took me a while to understand that this kind of job discrimination was caused by people's inactivity and ignorance rather than by any active actions preventing me from being able to make any progress to have my dream of a real job finally come true.

None of my job interviewers supported me in coming up with accommodations to boost my essential job functions until I could take full control over all job-responsibilities at least as well as other sighted lab-interns, who - in contrast to me - ware paid more than $2,000 per month even though I quickly learned from them the tricks to even exceed expected job-responsibilities. The only people, who were actually unexpectedly nice to me while I struggled through this sad time suffering from the adverse consequence, which deprived me of jobs because supervisors were uncertain about how severely my disabilities could jeopardize my abilities to reliably take care of all my assumed job-responsibilities, were most of the other sighted lab interns, who kept offering help and even supported me to implicitly causing our bosses to better notice my steeply upwards directed learning curve because we become creative in causing the impression in our superiors that my friends work was actually my work by having my friends to label their gels with the same bright colorful markers as I did and to have them spread out the colored pipette tips, which only I used because I could distinguish them much better from the almost transparent Ageroes gels. I remember struggling a lot in trying to come up with an adaptation for loading the wells at the end of these gels properly without puncturing the gels Luckily a sales rep saw struggling me and noticed that I kept puncturing the gel because I could not see how for down I had moved the transparent pipette tip loaded with the slightly more heavy blue dye. He was very nice and offered me his blue, yellow, green, red and bright orange tips, which restored my gale loading essential job function so unexpectedly well that I could take care of all job-responsibilities associated with or directly depending on being able to load these gels properly and especially fast enough to prevent the blue dye from diffusing through the gel before starting the electric current. Once I mastered that skills I could much better see, follow and measure the DNA fragments slowly moving through the gel due to the intrinsic negative charge of the DNA back bone. I learned to properly estimate the length of the analyzed DNA fragments by comparing it to the DNA fragments of known sizes used in the ladder lane.

Since my supportive lab mates, especially Jason helped me in forgetting that none of our lab supervisors actually cared about anything I could accomplish because they did not want to take any risk and trust my lab work because they were mainly concerned about possibly losing too much time in learning to work with me by better understanding the high challenges I kept facing but also my methods by which I succeeded in quickly overcoming many of them.

Actually before I started suffering from the unparalleled destructive disappointing setbacks soon after I had moved to Dallas in March of 2010 while on my Biology MS degree I had been fortunate to be mainly exempts from any kind of life-threatening devastating failures, which started to subconsciously invoke a very self-destructive helpless feeling caused by being surrounded by so many people, of whom everyone tried very hard to invoke the misconception to pretend to care.

UTSW was a very strange place. In my telomerase research lab, which I had worked so hard to be allowed to start interning in it on April 7th, which was the very first day that USCIS had authorized me to earn money by applying my the skills and techniques I had learned during the 2 preceding years at LA Tech.

Initially I felt so proud and important to get paid more than $2,000 per month for interning in the telomerase lab of Dr. Jerry Shay and Dr. Woodring Wright, who were highly respected leading experts in telomerase research. Initially, when I started applying to UTSW about a year earlier I greatly admired both researchers because of their milestone contributions to our understanding of the aging process.

I remember that shortly after the Berlin Wall opened my daddy read to me an article from a Swiss science magazine showing me a picture of Dr. Woodring Wright and explaining to me his concepts of biological clocks, which are believed to play a pivotal role regulating the aging process and guiding it through it highly regulated progression; thus, inevitably causing most species to keep progressing through their respective life stages but unfortunately having the same devastating affects like a very sophisticated time point, which unfortunately not only regulates most species to properly pass through all their developmental stages but also actively regulates the aging-induced physiological decline, which similar to apoptosis, is very akin to a genetically regulated eventually death-inducing suicide functions, which most experts believe is causing us to die unless we can figure out a way to stop the evolved highly sophisticated and very deadly mechanism, which unfortunately has evolved for such a long time following its infallible seeming uninterruptible methods to kill us in so mysterious ways that nobody has been able to succeed in stopping our inborn and highly interacting suicide mechanisms causing the quick progression of any aging phenotype until inducing death by a mechanism akin to flipping a light switch.

It is very freighting to know that every minute of our lives is actually a gradually advancing series of subsequently occurring metabolic steps, each bring us a tiny step closer to death with us having been able to start making more significant advances in stopping this madness. We know its ticking but we cannot figure out any way to stop it. It feels like being trapped in a maze waiting for the silent killer to take away what's most important to us, i.e. our very lives, which define, who we are. Like us, there is no place to hide in the maze from the killer. He may kill at any time in any place of the maze where we'd expect the danger the least.

I learned so much about aging at UTSW. Until I moved to Dallas in 2010 my recipe to keep succeeding in school despite being autistic and legally blind was to follow my interests only. Since the beginning of my post-secondary education at Tulane University, where I arrived for the very first time on August 25, 2001, I made the very empowering and confidence boosting experience that as long as I can give myself the opportunity to engage in anything I am truly and genuinely interested in and a passionate about I will be successful in whatever I choose to do because the excitement about being actively involved in anything, which could eventually benefit all of us tremendously in ways we cannot yet imagine, will generate the energy needed to sustain very rapid progress and success over long time.

That is why I started my post secondary education at Tulane University in New Orleans as an idealist driven and powered by the confidence that if I only want to become immortal long enough, strong enough, my passion and energy will eventually attract like-minded collaborators. This would eventually allow us to start functioning like a highly coordinated very flexible, highly adaptive far spread network spanning over many dimensions and providing access to unexpectedly complex carriers possessing lots of still mysterious and poorly understood encoded information, which keeps pointing to still completely unexplored dimensions still awaiting their targeted discoveries because every object, which we fail to discover, possesses the risk of holding and disguising very essential information, which we must never omit if we truly want to discover immortality within our natural lifetime.

Our method for advancing our discovery methods, concepts, dimension, options, features, research, measurements, observations and their interdependence and potentially causal relationships, which would finally allow us to better distinguish between phenomena, which are actively driving the progression of aging forward until death and physiological adoptions to the aging progress, which can be highly reproducible aging markers, which can be highly indicative of a very specific age, or a distinct phase of the aging process that can be used to better define it into smaller sections, we must dissect and try to understand the mechanisms, which can be shown to drive the progression of any of their intertwined and highly convoluted modes of mutually interdependent interactions, which must have been one of the most fundamental steps in the early evolution of the still mercilessly ticking progression in the extremely complexly acting, each other reinforcing and hence to have evolved an almost infallible seeming, highly regulated and reproducible progression of very distinct phases, which keep simultaneously occurring throughout the many dimensions affected by our very complex aging process. Most o the dimensions, which are expected to play key roles in maintaining the evolved progression of the overall aging progress, which keeps limiting our lifespan, and which we have started studying and dissecting in dimensions, for which our overall understanding, observational, measuring devices, analytical techniques, tested procedures for targeted concept, class, object and feature discoveries by which already successfully selected features for training supervised machine learning algorithms should be supplemented and be used as additional features to better define the machine learning across as many dimensions; thus, adding to the feature-vector-space, which can be made available to train any machine learning algorithm on all or parts of any feature vector space that has been used as input training data used to enhance the predictive power of any machine learning algorithm that has been successfully trained on it.

Unfortunately, Homo sapiens have failed in making any fundamentally revolutionary conceptual updates of our intuitive lack of understanding the aging process. Most of our leading scientists have unfortunately referred to limited their investigation of the aging process to the dimensions, observational methods and analytical techniques in which they are most experienced, causing new studies within the limitations of old dimensions to yield most predictable results, thus giving them the very comforting and confidence-boosting feeling to keep making progress towards fully controlling increasing many aspects of the small subset of objects, which we believe to be part of potentially very relevant highly synchronized and very well coordinated components, which - very similar to highly co-expressed genes - are believed to function together like a single unit without which the full scope of the aging process cannot be completely understood.

Unfortunately, in contrast to an set of highly co-expressed genes, which are part of the same molecular function (MF) the aging process consist of many more highly diverse and often initially completely unrelated seeming components - all of which could potentially come together and unit to form conditionally acting task forces, for which we cannot yet reliably define all its participating members, because many of them are believed to still remain hidden in not yet discovered dimensions across which the aging process has evolved in extremely complex ways. The reason for believing that of the dimensions within which evolution must have developed the most sophisticated still very poorly understood and most complex regulatory mechanisms known to men is that despite the far too long neglected urgently needed advances in feature selecting and impressive boost in the predictive power due to recent advances in better distinguishing between new features, which must be added to the set of already selected features, which causes extremely impressive boosts in the predictive power of any machine learning algorithm, which has been trained and a feature vector consisting of exactly the same features, which have been found to contribute to raise the prediction accuracy.

Unfortunately, new pioneering studies seem to indicate the like prediction-boosting training features there are kind of anti-features, which unexpectedly started to completely contradict our still immaturely-seeming and hence continuously evolving concepts, according to which the kind of anti-features, have exactly the opposite effect on ML based prediction, i.e. instead of boosting predictive power, they seem to cause it to decline again..

The observations that adding new features can either boost or reduce predictive power has led to the currently most popular transitional concept that features affecting ML based predictions in positive ways are opposed and balanced in their directional effects on ML based prediction by their potentially counteracting anti-features, which initially, i.e. looking at them only in isolation, cannot distinguish them from their respective features.

The only method by which features can be distinguishing form their respective anti-features is to test their effects on prediction by adding them to the selected feature training set. Only their observed effects on prediction allows us to divide them into their two opposing classes, i.e. any feature, which - when added to the training set raises overall prediction most below to the class "feature" with which we have been familiar already for quite a while.. In sharp contrast to features, any feature, which - if added to the ML training set - causes ML based predictive power to suddenly plummet, must be of the newly discovered class, named "anti-feature" referring to the opposite effect, which all members of this "anti-feature"class have on ml based prediction when being added to the training set of the ML algorithm used to distinguish between members of the mutually exclusive classes named "feature" and "anti-feature"

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Now I have a completely different questions, which I hope can make me better understand how causal relationships are believed to act in a legal setting.

I want to know whether my disabilities, which create an objectively undeniable need for being considered for reasonable disability accommodations, without which my disabilities would inevitably make me an imperative victim to job-discrimination because they'd be the only reason because of which no employer would consider to hire me.

If, on the other hand, my stigmatizing and suicide inducing immigration status, which has prevented me from finding a job, and which has driven me on the verge of committing suicide so many times because I felt so left alone deprived of any realistic hope for the omnipresent, never-ending, traumatizing, subconsciously continuously stressing uncertainty - and at times life-threatening, very intense episodes characterized fear, panic attacks and strong wish to do as my only remaining method of last resort to somehow escape the otherwise never-ending psychological torture to which I am always exposed by the never ending treat to remain at high risk for getting banned from America in the event that my disabilities prevent me from fully complying with US Immigration Laws, which have caused countless of nightmares, traumas, suicidal episodes because of which I was confined to mental hospitals, from which I could not benefit in any ways because no psychiatric or medical intervention can remove the never-ending psychological stress,, which causes me to keep suffering from this unstoppable mental torture I have not been able to escape since it initially started more than 25 years ago when I was forced to suffer from a never before experienced sudden loss of self-identity, which has triggered my first suicidal episode from which I was rescued into a mental hospital

I came to America as a foreign High School Exchange Student to Central Minnesota on July 15th, 1992. My high school year in Minnesota was my most transforming experience, which gave my life a purpose and me a self-identity, which empowered me to define, who I wanted to be because in Minnesota I was given the support, encouragement, understanding,, needed conceptual updates, and sense of fully belonging to my high school, where Margee Pfannenstein, my Minnesota States Services for the Blind Counselor empowered me to undergo a complete conceptual new-birth because she kept telling me that everyone, no matter how disable, deserves the resources, help, understanding, support and training to take full control over any aspect affecting her/her life.

Before I came to America for the very first time I felt look down about because of my low vision. Throughout my previous years in Germany I had fully internalized the misconception to be inferior to everyone normal (i.e. genotypically fully functional WT). I grew up hating my visual impairment because it kept isolating me into a very lonely artificial space I was allowed to make limited decision but I was not allowed to take any action, which would have extended the range of my decision-making power on subjects on which I felt that my visual impairment would make me ineligible to make decisions like normal people.

Since I hated being disabled I loved genetics because it gave me the unspoken hope to fix my mutations to become normal like everyone else. Although at home nobody supported me in figuring out a way to learn gene therapy I never stopped to secretly explore any opportunity, of which I had the unspoken hope, could eventually employer me to take full control over my genome until I had succeeded in restoring my eyesight and become fully immortal.

Unfortunately, whenever I timidly to make my parents, friends and teachers at my Blind School in Germany to understand that I was very serious about studying genetics after graduating I felt this complete loneliness, isolation and lack of understanding by anybody because everyone tried his/her very best to convince me that I cannot keep living in my protected bubble world that had been my reality while attending to boarding school for the Blind. If I did not over-analyze my situation and adhered to the common flow I actually felt happy at the blind school because I could comply with everybody's expectations and excelled in impressing people by performing far beyond anybody's expectations. Things were easy back then. I had my group of friends. I was considered to be exceptionally bright. I was given plenty of time to sleep as much as I wanted. I cannot remember to ever feeling exhausted, tired or burned out..

In 11th grades I secretly started form collaborations with scientists at the Genetics Department at the University Of Marburg, Germany, where I hoped to transition into after graduating from Blind School. I learned most of my Genetics from professors at the University of Marburg, who seem to enjoy that I preferred to spend my time there instead of with my friends in the dorm.

But then came the shock. I had to take a Russian Class at a regular high school together with none-handicapped because it was not offered at my school for the blind.

This caused me to realized that I had been living in a bubble full of illusions and unrealistic expectations for most of the past 11 years since I became a student at the school for the blind. While taking Russian at the regular high school I suddenly was no longer the genus - but instead - the most incapable failure because I had no chance to learn anything since I could neither see the board nor read my textbook. This lack of control scared the hell out of me because I suddenly realized that in only two years my blind school bubble would burst and everything would suddenly be like it was in the Russian class, i.e. I had no way of making any more progress

I am a natural talent for spoken languages. I had very good Russian Teachers while I was still in a student in the East. Therefore, I already knew most of the vocabularies the teacher taught. This allowed me to pass this class despite not being able to learn anything in it.

I was so afraid. My dream to study genetics dissolved if I started to imagine that university would be like taking this Russian Class

Nobody seem to be able to understand my worries because everyone was very relieved about me surrendering my hopes for restoring my vision with a new gene therapy, I hoped to be able to discover based on expecting to be much more motivated and successful by the prospect to finally succeeding in making all the discoveries needed to restore my eyesight.

Unfortunately, all my applications for accommodations to study genetics in Germany had been rejected by the office of welfare and integration on the grounds that although I had a nearly perfect GPA in high school and I had the needed talent and passion to discover the next generation of fully functional gene therapy methods the disability office argued that even if I should magically complete my university studies with perfect GPA,. most likely, nobody would hire me thus, making any money spend on my completely unrealistic expectations to cure my own eye a complete waste. Although this deprived me of all my drams and hopes I did not even consider challenging the refusal to provide me with any additional funds to pay for needed accommodation. My mindset was as German as everyone else's. Therefore, I easily bought into the misconception that I don't deserve any disability accommodations for pursuing any education., which would not give me realistic chances to find a real job with.. I started to feel much more inferior and trapped because I felt that my disabilities would always prevent me from getting anything to work ever!

But fortunately, then came America and opened up so many new opportunities to me, which caused me to feel like being reborn into a new empowering reality, which gave me what I had been missing. the concept that I deserve to decide, who I want to be and in which direction I'd like my life to go.

When I started high school in Minnesota everyone was so nice to me. Accommodations to help be compensate for my visual disability were freely giving to me without me even having to formally request them. Apart from taking that Russian class my high school in Minnesota was the very first time to get educated together with all normal students.

High School felt like Heaven to me. Everyone was so nice to me every day despite my extremely poor command of the English Language, which prevented me from following my classes, let alone to learn anything. But there was no fear. Nobody counted against me that I could not understand most of what people said.

My first quarter in high school felt like Christmas to me because teachers, low vision counselors, the Central Minnesota Education Unit, Minnesota States Services for the Blind, Special Ed Teacher,, my instructors and most of my fellow students offered me to tell them if I felt to need any kind of help.

I got note-takes, lots of friends, all textbooks on tape, all my textbooks in large print, help with homework assignments whenever I asked for it, reduced course load to only two classes during my first semester to give me enough time to improve my English and not to cause me any kind of stress or fear.

Actually, late Mr. Foley, my high school principal told me that what my school did for me was strictly forbidden by US Immigration Laws. According to the regulations USCIS imposed on J-1 student visa holder like me was to maintain my full time student status at all times while studying at my high school and to maintain at least a 2.0 GPA. Failing to comply with any of these regulations for J-1 student visa holders would have resulted in me being banned from the USA within only 7 days of any reported violation. Reported is the keyword here..

When my GPA dropped below 2.0 because at the very beginning my English was too poor for even understanding anything about the assignments I was supposed to supposed to turn in for grading or else I'd kept getting Fs. This caused my GPA to quickly drop below 2.0. This would automatically trigger a notification to USCIS that I had violated immigration laws. This would have resulted in immediate punishment by getting banned from the USA only seven days following my immigration law violations.

My principal knew that he had to figure out a way to prevent USCIS from getting notified about my Immigration Law violation. Since he knows that I had no way of comprehending the seriousness of my situation he decided to make decisions on my behalf. Everyone at my high school knew that I was working very hard and that putting me under even more stress, fear or pressure would make things only worse instead of better

I remember Mr. Foley asking me to tell him the classes, in which I faced most problems. I told him that every class, which requires me to read textbook is a problem because I had no way of reading them. Based on that information Mr. Foley dropped my National American Government Class, my History classes and a few others leaving me only with Algebra II and Pascal Programming Language since he figured that those would be the visually least demanding classes. Unfortunately, my GPA had dropped below 2.0 and I had to bring it up soon. Mr. Foley succeeded in make me understand that I must turn in all missed assignments asap to bring my GPA above the 2.0. The only way by which Mr. Foley could preventing our high school computers holding our grades from reporting my violations to USCIS was by asking the school nurse to mark me as sick. Unfortunately, that was only a short term fix because I could not be six for several weeks.

What helped a lot was that Mr. Foley gave me the tall free number of the Homework Help and insisted that I'd call them for help in submitting all still missing math homework to comply with immigration laws asap. This Homework Helpline was working wonders. It gave me access to all the still outstanding Algebra II Homework Assignments because the Tutors working at the helpline had the same math textbook I could not read. That is why they read all exercises to me and very patiently trained me in solving all these many problems making sure that all my answers free of any error thus allowing to quickly raise my GPA above .2.0 in less than 2 weeks.

Given such kind of supportive conditions and the assurance that all high school authorities would work with me to protect me from getting banned from the USA. They had no fear about openly violating US Immigration Laws because to them my well-being was more important than to comply with meaningless regulations that kept getting to cause more harm without benefiting anyone in any way because, who'd could have gained anything if Mr. Foley be too afraid to do whatever it takes to prevent Immigration from getting notified of any problem, which would have caused me to get banned from the USA already in September? Similarly, who'd gain anything or could benefit from me getting banned from the USA? Since there is no benefit from banning me from America, why is USCIS keeping me in a constant mode of fear, stress, panic and worries by threatening me to impose their laws on me in return for nothing except for panic attacks, suicide, nightmares and emotional trauma.

For the very first time I started to feel comfortable and normal to be with normal students. People kept supporting me in improving in all regards and accessible dimensions without forcing anything on me. My host mom had bitterly complained to Mr. Foley to refrain from assigning me more homework since I refused to go to bed unless I had completed all assigned homework problems. My attitude to please and impress everyone by working harder was appreciated but everyone tried to explain me that sleeping is more important than completing all homework problems on time because I had all weekend to catch up This was the last time I can remember that my instructor worried about me getting enough sleep more than insisting on timely submission of all assigned homework problem.

My English improved rapidly allowing me to take 3 classes the second quarter, 4 classes in the third quarter, 5 in my last quarter and graduating with an overall GPA of 3.666 from Holdingford Public Area High School on May 31st, 1993. In honor of our graduation we spend a day at the Mall of America in the Twin Cities.

This one year of High School allowed me to improve from not understanding any English into a student, who was getting ready for college in the USA.

This high school year transformed me into a completely new student, who was very optimistic and confident to succeed in whatever goals I decided to pursue

I felt that my High School had provided me with a place to grow, develop and strive learning how to stand on my own feet and do whatever it would take to make all my dreams come true. The Concept, which I formed while studying at Holdingford Public High School about America was synonymous with my High School Experience. I could not yet imagine on my high school graduation ceremony on May 31st that I was about to lose that I was about to lose access to the most supportive environment I ever had the privilege to be part of. Around the time I graduated from high school I started feeling ecstatic energy burst induced by an opportunity to study human genetics at the University of Minnesota in the Twin City and having the option to join Dr. Richard King's Research Lab, which had secured a huge NIH Grant, which I hoped could provide the funds to pay for my on-campus student employment, which was awarded specifically to fund the development of a viable medical treatment option for Albinism based on Dr. Richard Kin's expectations to be able to fully complete the development, testing, evaluation, optimization and approval of this gene therapy as most effective cure for Albinism within the four years, for which the requested funding was provided.

How much more lucky I could be? Only a year ago the German Office of Welfare and Integration refused to support me in any way to discover, develop and apply a novel form of gene therapy holding the widely shared promise to provide the very first gene therapy expected to correct the gene mutations causing my eye disease, i.e. Albinism. Many of the leading highly accomplished and most respected researchers, like Dr. Richard King heading the development of the first gene therapy to serve as the medical foundation to replace all genetic mutations, which could cause the Albino phenotype; hence restoring the eyesight of Albino patients.

During this exciting summer of 1993 Dr. Richard Spritz had succeeded to launch a very similar research project at the University of Madison in Wisconsin.

Dr. Richard kin at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities and Dr. Richard Spritz at the University in Madison, Wisconsin refused to collaborate and to communicate because they mutually considered each other as fierce competitors trying to prove to each other and the rest of the world that they are the better, cleverer, more creative, innovative, faster because of their superior study design.

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Now back to the most pressing immigration laws:

Should I succeed in graduating with a PhD in bioinformatics in August, I have almost no chance to get hired on OPT because firstly I lack first author publications in respected peer-reviewed bioinformatics scientific journals with high impact factors. Unfortunately, every other of my at least 100 competitors, who are much better qualified than me for any position for which we may compete based on their publication track records but also based on their much more extensive research experiences, skill sets, analytical experiences, much more extensive exposures to more diverse datasets and file and file formats.

I am very afraid to get trapped in a situation, in which my bioinformatics PhD - instead of helping me to get hired in the very competitive field of bioinformatics it excludes me from getting hired for any bioinformatics jobs because all employers will discriminate against me by not even considering my application and work with in coming up with most promising methods to accommodate my visual disability by maximally boosting as many of my essential job functions to maximize the scope to add as many new job-responsibilities to my new workload.

Any remaining ob-responsibilities must be removed from my workload and reassigned to my non-handicapped coworkers if we cannot come up with an accommodation that would put me in a position to sufficiently boost all required essential job-functions to take on some job-responsibilities.