asya&sam

My husband (the USC) lived with me in Poland for over 3.5 years before we decided to move back to USA.
He really didn't want to move. He loved how friendly and welcoming people are in Poland. He loved how everyone was always trying to talk to him, even if they spoke very little English, and how easy it was to make friends.
For us the decision to move back to the States came down to 2 things:
1) My husband really doesn't have a flair for languages. He never learned the language and realistically speaking, he wouldn't learn it in the future, at least not fluently enough to secure a "serious job" in Poland. He had a full-time job teaching kindergarten kids English in Warsaw, which was a surprisingly well-paying job (compared to other Polish jobs), but that's not something he would want to do for the rest of his life (or even for a foreseeable future). If he wanted to have a serious job (in his field), he would have to either learn the language or move to an English-speaking country.
2) He still has many years of student loans to pay off in USA. We were paying them off while living in Poland, but you can only imagine how ridiculous it was, taking into consideration how much weaker Polish zloty is compared to US dollar and what the currency exchange fees and transfer fees are. Even with Transferwise it just didn't make any sense.
So for us moving to the States was a very calculated decision, which meant that my husband could secure a job in his field (he's a social worker) and start paying off his student loans. He's already talking about moving abroad when the loans get paid off.
While living in Poland he got used to certain perks, such as affordable healthcare (he's never seen as many doctors in such a short time as he did when we lived in Poland: he went to fix his teeth, checked his heart murmurs with a bunch of different heart exams, went to eye doctor to finally get new prescription for his glasses, went to ear-and-throat doctors after singing too many songs to his little students... etc). Now we're back in the States, he has an employee-provided insurance, but it sucks! Deductible is $5k so he's afraid to go to any doctor again.
Getting pregnant here in the States is a very scary prospect for me. Poland is much more family-friendly (guaranteed long and paid maternity leave, possible paternity leave, tax-payer funded pre-schools, affordable healthcare, etc.) I'm 31 and if we want kids we should probably start having them now or soon, but in US with the high healthcare cost, high childcare cost and extremely short (if any) maternity leave I just don't know how we would get through it. For the time being it's a bit too overwhelming.
I guess a lot depends on the outcome of the November elections. I can't imagine what this country could turn into if Trump wins. We're lucky that the closest friends that we have here in Minnesota are also very forward-thinking, progressive and well-traveled people, but it's really hard for me to deal with the bigotry of some of husband's family members.
I'm still hoping that this move will be a positive thing in our lives. We only moved back here this year (my husband in January and I in July). Time will tell.

As the others said - go talk to the people on campus. It is what I did and they have been very helpful.
I actually got here on my K-1 in November 2015, got married a week later, then applied for AOS in December and am starting school today.
It is a bit different, because I am transferring in a whole bunch of credits and do their Bachelor Completion Program (in their Adult Learners Section), rather than start as a regular student at 0 credits with everything ahead of me.
So for that Program, the tuition is the same for everybody, in state, ouf of state, they dont care. There is no minimum residency requirement, they just care that I am here legally. It is not the cheapest school but a pretty good one and WAY better than paying international student fees at another school.
Like there is a Community College close by, but there I would not be able to transfer in much in the way of credits and would have to pay international fees for the first year, which are incredibly high.
Do you have any education form your country that you can try to have credited towards a degree here?