Is anyone here a former Google Student Ambassador? and if so, How did you navigate through immigration?
Can you be more specific about your concerns?
It is my understanding that all Google Student Ambassadors are full-time students, so you should have a valid student visa if you’re not a US citizen already. That being said, the terms of your student visa may not allow you to accept a paid position for Google (even 10 hours a month) without proper work authorization.
If you are an international student, you are allowed to work on campus. The Google student ambassador is meant to work on campus. Are you an international student? What I am basically asking is does the Google Student Ambassador position qualify as an on campus job because on the ICE website, these were the guidelines for an on campus job:
The definition for on-campus employment is in 8 CFR 214.2(9)(i).
There are two types of limits on the employment:
Type and location
The work must take place either at your school or at an educationally affiliated (associated with the school’s established curriculum or part of contractually funded research projects at the postgraduate level) off-campus location. Work that takes place at your school location could be for an on-campus commercial business, like a bookstore or cafeteria, as long as the work directly provides services for students.
Employment located on-campus that does not directly involve services to students (such as construction work) does not qualify as on-campus employment.
Work with an employer that is contractually affiliated with the school is on-campus employment even if the work site is not located on the campus (such as a research lab affiliated with your school).
Jobs that do not displace a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (LPR)
I very much doubt that the Google Student Ambassador program qualifies as “on-campus employment” in the sense of F-1 employment policies.
You are not working for an on-campus commercial firm, such as a privately run cafeteria or bookstore on campus. You’d be working for Google, which is very much an off-campus company not affiliated with your university.