Long story, but I'll try to make ir short, wife is a physicist been in the US for 10 years on J1 then h1B visa, we have 2 toddlers, 2 and 5, she had a contract with UCF doing research that stated it would end if funding ran out, funding was approved 2 days before the contract termination, but the office of Faculty Excellence said they terminated her contract bc they didn't have enough processing time..?
Her direct supervisor wants it undone, the department chair wants it undone, basically everyone says it's a mistake… but faculty excellence not only stands by their decision, but REFUSE to speak to her supervisor, a tenured professor of the institution.
We don't understand what's happening, or why they refuse to even speak to us, she has received excellent reviews from her students, and the research grants are highly specialized and earmarked for her, colleagues are scrambling to find a solution, but due to the nature of the academic H1B we and our kids migh be uprooted and be caused a whole lot of unnecessary suffering. The departmente is trying to rehire her ASAP, but might run into bureacratic delays that will cause our time to run out.
Making this a human interes story might help either land a position before we have to leave the country, or get Faculty Excellence to at least TALK to us.
We justy don't understand this level of cruelty and disregard, what amounts to a tiny bureacratic detail is messing up lives, and they won't even let us plead our case, or work with us.
If anyone can help me spread this story to the media, or anyone here is on the media and think they can help, PLEASE, I beg you.