Ivy Route

Follows the road to the US — from a tourist visa to a Green Card and everyday life in American cities. Looks harder than most at the gap between the picture and reality: what housing, a cafe or a car actually cost, not what social media says about it. Readers get not a dream of America but a rough count of expenses and a sequence of steps. Covers how someone got a Green Card after arriving on a tourist visa and staying, and why a visa can take nine tries to approve. Also digs into what it costs to buy a house or open a cafe in LA, and whether living rent-free in someone else's home is really possible. There's no legal advice or case support here — just situations and numbers laid out plainly.