After living in the U.S. for 8 years on a student visa, the year 2018 was meant to be my final year in America. Today, I am a permanent resident of the United States, but for many years I had lived with the understanding that my time here was always temporary. In Leaving, what began as an exercise in mourning the country I had called home for almost a decade eventually became my humble attempt at documenting what it is like to try, and still want to be, an immigrant in America.
