USA revoked my visa for re-entry, need help for a home again

Dear friends,

I HATE to have to do this but unfortunately I’m in a really desperate and dire situation and don’t have any other option. With the encouragement of some dear friends, I have the courage to share my truth.

In July 2023, I lost my very well paid corporate job in London which was random and unannounced by an American company.

I took a few months break as I had managed to save for the first time in my 12 years of living in London and working non-stop.

Fast forward to October/November of 2023 I was not able to find a new role or get interviews as I was slowly crushing into my savings. I had cut down on all disposable expenditure and was on a very strict living budget and kept being told by employers “the economy is difficult right now”.

(I’d also like to cautiously add, my family have not been apart of my life for 12 years. This has been the story since I left Scotland in 2013, to move to London for a new beginning. My mother, nor ANY of my siblings have helped or contributed to any of my struggles, my homelessness in the past and in present and I do not have any ties with any member, except from my loving father who is very old).

April 2024 my landlord was trying to evict me from my property and I BEGGED them to let me stay. They gave me 30 days to vacate the property.

I had to register myself homeless with Tower Hamlets so they could intervene and stop them from kicking me out and making me homeless.

This did NOT work. The landlord didn’t care. The housing agents did not care and said I still had to leave within 14 days. I begged and cried but they didn’t care.

End of November 2024, with no plan, no job, no money or home secured I officially became homeless and didn’t have a place to stay in London. I had lost a lot of weight and wasn’t eating well.

Luckily, a friend in the US offered to help support me until I got back on my two feet and get a new job. The little money I had, paid for my flight to the US.

I travelled to America on an ESTA visa which I have done many times before and never had any trouble. Everything seemed semi cool for now until I figured out my next move, whilst still applying for 100’s of jobs a day all over the world and not getting any interviews.

I came back to London in less than 90 days on the visa ensuring I did not commit anything unlawful or break the rules.I managed to book a return flight to US on Monday 14th April.

10 hours before my flight, US Customs and Border Patrol had revoked my visa, with no reason given and I am not allowed back in with that Visa.

I am absolutely distraught and broken to be homeless AGAIN within the space of 4 months.

I simply cannot afford to live in London and sustain myself because rent and cost of living is easily between £2-3k a month. It is impossible to survive in London without a job or family housing to fall back on. I have nowhere I can stay here long term because everyone lives with their parents, flat mates, their children, their partners or cannot simply keep me for the foreseeable as it is very uncertain.

I am writing this to desperately seek your help and support in my current hardship…

I would have never wrote this, if I had another way out.

I have done a lot of extensive research to go and reside in other countries for a lot cheaper until I can fund myself a new petition visa to get back into the US which will take anything from 6-12 months :(

After doing a lot of research, I can stay in a few countries across the globe, on my own, on 60-90 day visa for as very low as £400-500 a month for rent, £100-200 on food and anything extra for bills and travel.

I would need some extra to cover my UK phone line for safety abroad and for any potential job calls, as well as covering the costs of my storage unit in London, which is £220 a month to store all my belongings.

A return flight would cost me between £700-£900 with a permitted change included for emergencies and 1 luggage suitcase. Flight prices are increasing by the day because we are about to reach peak summer dates.

I know this looks and sounds like a lot of money but this is the cheapest way of affording a roof over my head, until I can secure a job in the UK and/or a new visa entry into US again, which cannot be done by an ESTA any longer.

I have weighed all my options out carefully with a sound mind and this is possible but only with the help of my community and extensive network…

I’d like to believe I’ve spent 12 years building my community and network online, around the world and in real life all by myself, with no handouts and sincerity in my heart.

Even if you can contribute £10/$10 or £20/$20, any little helps. £100/$120 from one person would contribute towards 8-10 nights of me sleeping somewhere safely.

I have roughly calculated how much it would cost to survive for 6 months and I pray God will come through for me during my most difficult, weak, tender times.

I’m homeless, please help me. Donate anything you can. It will help no matter what.

I hope you find it in your heart to understand my situation. I am human and it hurts me to have to share my truth to the world, for everyone to see.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

These last 2 years have been my hardest and I hope and pray this will be the last of it so I can finally grow in safety and find stability in this very unpredictable time.

Lots of love to every friend and person who comes across this.

Amna/Kiwi

xxx