Summit focuses on immigrants’ road to integration

Many immigrants arrive here with a very good education but can't use any of their experience or degrees to find work here. Plus, they have to adjust to all the other things that are new, including cold weather. - - Donna Poisl

by Patrick Meighan

NASHUA – Immigrants who freshly arrive here struggle with everything from learning how pedestrian crossing signals work to adapting to cold weather.

Simple acts of daily life aside, one of the largest frustrations is education.

During the second annual immigration summit held here Monday, several immigrants talked about how frustrating it is to have college degrees and years of experience in a career in their native land, only to be told they have to start from scratch in the U.S. Starting from scratch can mean not only having to go to college again, but also first needing a GED.
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