Go get your degree. Immigrating to anywhere else in the Western world basically requires an undergraduate degree and if you don’t get permanent residence and a path to citizenship in Germany you may be locked out completely due to a tough job market. US University scholarships for undergrad are also harder to get once you’ve aged out of the standard path so it may be now or never. What happens after the degree will no doubt be a source of a lot of stress but it’ll be worth it if you use that time wisely (and some time unwisely, just to really live and experience the US).
I say this as someone who got a GC and dropped out of school to go work on my own startup before going back to do undergrad years later. The degree opens up a lot of options internationally and the US “college experience” is worth the time and money if you’ve got a scholarship.
Yes, this. Even if we assume that a degree is worthless for the sake of the argument, it's never "worthless" if you ever plan to migrate, from any country to any country really.
And degrees from Asian universities are often ranked lower or not accepted at all. I don't know what the situation is like for computer science, but my Indonesian ex had a six year university degree but that wasn't accepted in any Western countries for immigration or employment. Is there a good reason for that? I don't know – my expertise in veterinary science is basically zero, but the clinic where she worked didn't seem that different from Western clinics that I've seen, so I'm somewhat inclined to say "no".
Dependent of an H1b, so I'm not saying the "drop out to do a startup" option will be available to you, I would have stayed if my visa depended on it (I had already been in the US for over a decade as a dependent)
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Go get your degree. Immigrating to anywhere else in the Western world basically requires an undergraduate degree and if you don’t get permanent residence and a path to citizenship in Germany you may be locked out completely due to a tough job market. US University scholarships for undergrad are also harder to get once you’ve aged out of the standard path so it may be now or never. What happens after the degree will no doubt be a source of a lot of stress but it’ll be worth it if you use that time wisely (and some time unwisely, just to really live and experience the US).
I say this as someone who got a GC and dropped out of school to go work on my own startup before going back to do undergrad years later. The degree opens up a lot of options internationally and the US “college experience” is worth the time and money if you’ve got a scholarship.
Yes, this. Even if we assume that a degree is worthless for the sake of the argument, it's never "worthless" if you ever plan to migrate, from any country to any country really.
And degrees from Asian universities are often ranked lower or not accepted at all. I don't know what the situation is like for computer science, but my Indonesian ex had a six year university degree but that wasn't accepted in any Western countries for immigration or employment. Is there a good reason for that? I don't know – my expertise in veterinary science is basically zero, but the clinic where she worked didn't seem that different from Western clinics that I've seen, so I'm somewhat inclined to say "no".
Huge number of degree mills - difficult to verify, which isn't true of like, Buffalo State University.
Were you on an F1 visa or something else?
Dependent of an H1b, so I'm not saying the "drop out to do a startup" option will be available to you, I would have stayed if my visa depended on it (I had already been in the US for over a decade as a dependent)