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Immigrant Gets Early Upgrade to the American Dream
To some the American dream may be owning a Harley, but for Nas Hadjiat it's the opportunity to own his own computer repair business.
Young Nas Hadjiat got a call from his family while he was studying mathematics and computer programming at a Parisian university. They told him to come home. They were moving to America. Hadjiat packed his belongings and rushed back to his native country of Algeria, located in northern Africa across the Mediterranean Sea from France, to immigrate with his parents and younger brother and sister. The family had been awarded Green Cards through the United States’ Diversity Immigrant Visa Program which gives about 50,000 permanent resident cards a year in countries with low immigration rates. Although Hadjiat lived in a foreign country for school, France had not been a culture shock for him. Since Algeria was ruled by France for a more than a …
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