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Illegally cross the border into Canada or Mexico and try to get citizenship before they deport you back.

Job visa or student visa

iirc we're right in the middle of hiring season for college students who graduate in May.

• look for job fairs. these are events to recruit college students. sometimes they're held online. Check out your school's career center to see what job fairs are scheduled. if you're at a small school, look at the schedule for nearby larger university. back when they were all onsite, you could usually sneak in, dunno about virtual.
• once you get to a job fair look for big international companies. ask about opportunities to work overseas. emphasize your CompTIA certs and ability to speak Spanish. it'd be easier with an undergrad but an associates is doable.
• consider going to Latin America, since you know Spanish.
• wait, did you say your grandfolks were Venezuelan? check out the Latino alumni club of your college. If your college is too small, check out the club of the nearest large university. If they have a "diversity lounge" with counselors go there and ask for an appointment. a lot of times companies make contact with those counselors for referrals. (I know a lot of companies are closing their DEI efforts but fam this is a cycle that happens every 5-10 years and the Latino/Black/etc people who work in those companies still make an effort to ensure fair hiring even if we have to review resumes in our spare time.)

Anyway, this is something to try alongside the schooling approach.

There are a few weird historical rules which may be useful. For example, if any of your ancestors were Spanish Jews who were expelled in 1492, you may be entitled to Spanish citizenship. The same might go for Portugal.

You could do your bachelor's in the EU. In that case, I believe the easiest way is by searching for universities that offer studies in english. The university I work at offers a master's in computer science in English but the bachelor's is in German. Most international universities also have offices that can help you with organizing your stay and visa.

One potential avenue is getting a job teaching English in another country. I've known a few people who did that for a year or two after college and enjoyed the experience. I think the pay is not great, and you're stuck in a classroom teaching a lot of the time, but it's a relatively straightforward path out of the country and into a life somewhere else, and with a company involved to expedite the process because they want to make money from you working ASAP.

Getting your BS in CS can potentially help you as well, depending on the country you want to move to. Not an expert but when I was looking into this awhile back I found various countries will give preferential treatment based off things like education and skills. Being a college educated SWE or whatever can make you more appealing to immigration authorities.

Just show up in Belgium. Ask for asylum. If you're denied, just stay. Belgium does not deport asylum seekers that got denied, you get access to unemployment benefits, free (for you) education, etc.

Look up “working holiday visas” if you’re under 30. It’s a process to encourage people to get world experience while they’re young. I’m sure if you found somewhere you liked you could then try and get something more permanent.

Some countries are easier to get into than others. Start researching which ones have a path that could work for you.

Most are pretty strict but some are more open. If I recall correctly the Nordic countries may be a little easier, but don't quote me on that. It's been a long time since I accepted that this country had successfully trapped me here.

Make sure to research expected pay in your desired target countries. I was shocked when I saw the difference between compsci job salaries in the US and Italy. Can adjust for cost of living differences but it was still a significant decrease. Would be good to be aware ahead of time and not surprised if you're not happy with the salaries presented.

People focus on citizenship but you could just relocate in a EU country, stay as much as you can, then switch country: Portugal, Spain, France, Italy are more than ok, Croatia is growing.
The most important thing to focus on, to me, is what kind of work you can do

Do you have ANY Italian ancestry? Even fairly distant like 100+ years ago? Irish grandparents?

Other than that it's gonna be tough bud.

Not EU but there's ways to do remote work in other countries... Look into some "digital nomad" communities although they often come across as gross privileged fucks who just want to exploit lower costs of living and not try to fit in at all.

University fees for foreign students can be very high. For example, I think the fees at Edinburgh university for a foreign student are 3 times the cost for English students, and almost 9 times compared to Scottish students. I’m going from memory here so I could be off a bit.

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