Maybe what's rankling some of the respondents is that it doesn't seem that the OP has really tried much in the way of getting out of here on their own accord. I mean, maybe there aren't jobs for people with passports from 2 important countries and a doctarate, but I know that 3 of the cafes we frequent have signs that they are looking for bacheros, a lot of the shops are looking for attendants etc. ie there are jobs out there. Also if the way the OP introduces themselves to locals is by calling attention to their two important passports and their doctorate's degree, I can see why they're not making many friends -- it can come off sounding rather pretentious.
I've got "a Master's degree from a top 20 school" and a passport from 1 "important" country -- but when I wanted to leave England 10 years ago I had to get myself out of that situation. I just buckled down and took a live-in job at a pub making 4 pounds an hour and saved up the money for the flight home. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do, and that might mean taking a job that you deem yourself to be too good for.
Maybe OP needs to look for a job here, any job. Getting a job would help save the cash for the ticket home, but it might also open up new social avenues and lead to meeting new interesting people and a new perspective on the city. They may be on a tourist visa, but there's always some sort of en negro job out there.
I don't think the US Embassy is going to feel too badly for someone in their 30s with a doctorate that came down because of love and that probably is knowingly breaking the law by overstaying a tourist visa. I think people have very romantic notions as to what their Embassies are willing to do for them. The OP isn't facing violence or persecution of any form, we're not living in a war zone. If it were a matter of documented domestic abuse then yes they help, but providing loans to distressed citizens usually falls to citizens who are in countries where their lives may truly be in peril, where the local govt is collapsing, where there has been a natural disaster etc.
I would think that the OP is really going to have to show that they have exhausted every other choice before they can qualify for a loan from the embassy.
I've got "a Master's degree from a top 20 school" and a passport from 1 "important" country -- but when I wanted to leave England 10 years ago I had to get myself out of that situation. I just buckled down and took a live-in job at a pub making 4 pounds an hour and saved up the money for the flight home. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do, and that might mean taking a job that you deem yourself to be too good for.
Maybe OP needs to look for a job here, any job. Getting a job would help save the cash for the ticket home, but it might also open up new social avenues and lead to meeting new interesting people and a new perspective on the city. They may be on a tourist visa, but there's always some sort of en negro job out there.
I don't think the US Embassy is going to feel too badly for someone in their 30s with a doctorate that came down because of love and that probably is knowingly breaking the law by overstaying a tourist visa. I think people have very romantic notions as to what their Embassies are willing to do for them. The OP isn't facing violence or persecution of any form, we're not living in a war zone. If it were a matter of documented domestic abuse then yes they help, but providing loans to distressed citizens usually falls to citizens who are in countries where their lives may truly be in peril, where the local govt is collapsing, where there has been a natural disaster etc.
I would think that the OP is really going to have to show that they have exhausted every other choice before they can qualify for a loan from the embassy.
