Seek asylum (France), or continue school?
I’m a 23yo woman studying for a bachelor’s degree in health care in the middle east. I’m expected to graduate in 3 years.. but my university degree is not recognized/accredited in any EU country where I’m hoping to live/work.
I currently have a Schengen tourist visa that expires in few months, and I’m not sure if I’ll have this opportunity again.
There are several reasons why I can’t see a future for me in this area, first my home country is forever in war, and I’m a resident in a religious country.. I’m non-religious and I’m in a long distance relationship with a non-religious man from the west, so marriage here is quite difficult (impossible without ‘pretending’), let alone meeting.
I long for the freedom I felt in Europe.. and all the future goals that I can’t achieve if I stay where I am now.
Right now, I feel stuck between two options :
1- I stay where I am, finish my degree, and find a way to travel somewhere after I graduate and I start from the 0 anyway (at +27 years old) because my degree may not transfer..
(The scary part is if things get worse where I am and my visa gets rejected in the future)
Or
2- I use the opportunity I have, I go to France and start over.
But, I don’t know how difficult it is regarding finding work / studying again as a refugee.. getting residency and how long it’ll take? Is it possible to build a stable life abroad from scratch.. eventually living normally as part of society?
I need your advice cause I’m really so lost.
(Ps. I was born in France, but I’ve never lived there + none of my family is French. So I know the citizenship is not possible but thought I would mention it.)