Financial hardship

[blondedoc 35]

http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/20/news/economy/brazil-unemployment-jobs/

[Merrytooth 5,748]

So the Rio 2016 Olympics is not going to help the economy at all?

[blondedoc 35]

So the Rio 2016 Olympics is not going to help the economy at all?

Ugh... it will damage even more...

They have those people to work as a community work!!! They are not paying those people... They are going just "to be" in the Olympic games...

I was looking to work as a doctor for them, because I can handle multicultural patients (experience with the biggest international airport) but everything here in Brazil is a scheme... They got a company who are taking doctors who never worked with foreigners just because their price is amazingly cheap!!!

Check what is happening here, talking out of economic crisis...

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/04/brazil-olympics-collapse/479388/

http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/feb/01/funding-problems-hit-plan-clean-rios-polluted-waterways-olympics

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/12/health/zika-olympics-threat/

http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-politics/authorities-in-rio-warn-of-no-medical-care-for-olympic-tourists/#

I can keep going forever here

[Kastrs 723]

Aw! Our cost of life will go down in a huge way! I know my expenses will not disappear but I'll be able to work there (not as a doctor yet) and pay my particular stuff, and we will be able to get health insurance from his company, we will be able to let the kids at the public school (in Brazil they are really bad so everyone here kill themselves to keep their kids in a particular school), we will have just one rent, not 2, food for him will be cheaper once we will eat all at home and for now he's not cooking for himself... There's a lot of ways that I can prove that our financial life together will make his life easier too.

You should definitely investigate the health insurance bit a little more. In my experience, a company will subsidize the cost of the health insurance for the employee while the dependents of that employee are only eligible to get the group discount. For example the cost of my health insurance more than doubled when I added my husband. Also, good luck trying to figure medical bills out, they are what I call the reverse lotto because you can never be quite sure how much that doctor visit is going to cost.

[IguanaCouple 26]

Your financial hardship case may have a chance; obviously it is impacting your husband. Send in as much evidence as you can from your employers in Brazil about your pay going down, receipts for school expenses for the kids, the whole shebang.

Have you taken the USMLE? If not, you'll need a year to prepare for it, another year to look for residency and do not expect the residency to be where your husband is and residencies pay just about enough for a spartan living and basic student loan payments.

I have a friend with an M.D from India and she's having the worst time of her life making ends meet.

If you don't care for a medical practice, your life in the U.S. will be significantly better provided you are able to find some other job that you are happy with. All the best.

[blondedoc 35]

You should definitely investigate the health insurance bit a little more. In my experience, a company will subsidize the cost of the health insurance for the employee while the dependents of that employee are only eligible to get the group discount. For example the cost of my health insurance more than doubled when I added my husband. Also, good luck trying to figure medical bills out, they are what I call the reverse lotto because you can never be quite sure how much that doctor visit is going to cost.

Me and hubby we made that already and it will be worse here in Brazil.

Here we pay health insurance (same amount as there, making a comparison) but they have a really bad assistance... I´m quite ok with it because as a doctor I know if something is wrong and not well done and I can argue with the health insurance. And already I was in a situation that I knew the doctor who was working and the doctor felt sorry from my situation and helped me not charging me his part, I just paid the hospital (my kid broke his elbow during summer vacations... :/)

[blondedoc 35]

Your financial hardship case may have a chance; obviously it is impacting your husband. Send in as much evidence as you can from your employers in Brazil about your pay going down, receipts for school expenses for the kids, the whole shebang.

Have you taken the USMLE? If not, you'll need a year to prepare for it, another year to look for residency and do not expect the residency to be where your husband is and residencies pay just about enough for a spartan living and basic student loan payments.

I have a friend with an M.D from India and she's having the worst time of her life making ends meet.

If you don't care for a medical practice, your life in the U.S. will be significantly better provided you are able to find some other job that you are happy with. All the best.

Oh, yes... Today as I´m free I´m gathering all the evidence and my boss is writing a letter explaining what is happening to my job.

I did not took the USMLE still... Here in Brazil can´t stop to study... If I work part time... Wow... no food on the table... So I´m waiting get there to study and do this.

I already took a medical assistant certification so I´m planning work part time and study the other part of the day.

So during all this second journey that I´ll have, I have planned everything already. The loan that I have here, I´ll finish to pay, selling my car from Brazil, selling all my furniture and I´ll add the income that my ex partner own me (I´m without child support it´s been almost 2 years and I´m waiting this lazy brazilian court to realize that I need money to raise the kids...)... I moved to my mom apartment and I rented my house to have a better income but the tenant can´t pay so much, so it´s zero X zero...

So much to do... wow... That´s why I´m worried... I have 2 kids involved and if it was me, ok... But me and hubby we are more concerned about the kids...

Thank you very much for your advice

[Boiler 43,452]

Seems a long shot, after all if you can get an expedite pretty much anybody in Brazil could, or many other countries.

But no harm trying.

Solo I212 is a difficult beast to predict timewise.