Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction; 1. American visa; 2. America here I come; 3. At the airport; 4. Identity Relay; 5. Marriages of Convenience; 6. Paul, the Powerful; 7. Matt the cheat; 8. What about a success story?; 9. To stay or not to stay; Note to the reader; Back cover
Summary
Albertís life dream is to immigrate to the USA, to seek greener pastures. After several failed attempts, he finally gets a visa. Then he arrives the USA hoping for a bright and easy future. Before long he hears stories of desperation, struggles and a few successes. Desperation is portrayed by Mola aka Mboma who adopts a dead manís identity in order to stay in the USA and by Bruno who marries a US-born woman as his ticket to the USA, knowing fully well that she was leading a double life. Struggles are seen in Paul and Matt who have to work more than two times harder to barely survive in the USA