u/No_Engineering8787

Hi! I submitted my verification document (a credit card statement) as photo of a printed copy since I was told that format makes it easier to confirm legitimacy(?). It's still stuck in manual verification, and I'm wondering if that's because I redacted the balance amounts. I did leave my address and everything else that was required visible and unredacted. Is this delay normal, or is there someone I can reach out to about it?

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Morning everyone! Yesterday I received an email claiming to be from the Meridian Argo team, but my email client flagged it as potentially unsafe. The sender address wasn't one I'd seen before, so I looked it up and found information suggesting it was legitimate, so I went ahead and completed the verification assessment. I'm now waiting on next steps. Just wanted to double check: is this legit?

The sender address was: argo@invisible.email

So I've been on the job hunt for a while now and it's been... exhausting, to put it nicely. I'm based in Puerto Rico, US citizen (yes, we are part of the US, yes, I know I still have to explain this in 2026 😅), and finding remote positions that don't quietly exclude PR has been a whole ordeal.

I get it. The tax situation is different here, Act 60, the 1099 vs W-2 thing, employers sometimes just don't want to deal with it. I'm aware of all of that and honestly fine navigating it, I just need to find companies that are actually open to it in the first place.

I've tried a lot of the usual routes and kept hitting walls. Either the application gets to the location field and stops dead, or I get a generic "we don't hire in your region" after weeks of silence.

Not picky about industry at this point either. Open to customer service, admin, writing/editing, research, data entry, whatever. I just want something legitimate and stable that won't make me feel like I'm invisible on the map.

If anyone has found companies that specifically work with PR residents, or platforms worth actually using, I would genuinely appreciate it. And please, if it sounds like a pyramid scheme or starts with "be your own boss" I'm already gone lol.

Thanks in advance to anyone who responds, this sub has been more helpful than most.

Holaa. Okay, tengo un rant y lo voy a soltar porque ya.

Se dice mucho que los jóvenes de hoy no quieren trabajar, que estamos vagos, que nos falta dedicación y ganas. Pero eso no es la realidad, y me tiene harta. Yo llevo semanas, quizás meses, sometiendo aplicaciones a trabajos, de verdad perdí la cuenta. Tengo la experiencia, tengo las ganas, soy buena en entrevistas, y ANTES me cogían on the spot, literalmente al terminar la entrevista. ¿Ahora? Ahora lo que recibo es: "We appreciate your interest, and your experience is impressive, but we have decided to move forward with other candidates."

¿Pero qué es eso? ¿Cómo me van a decir que mi experiencia es impresionante y en el mismo párrafo descartarme? No tiene sentido. Y lo que más me molesta no es ni el rechazo en sí, es la narrativa. La gente habla tanta mierda de que los jóvenes no queremos trabajar, pero nadie está hablando de los que SÍ tenemos las ganas y seguimos chocando contra una pared. Y encima de todo eso, cuando sí hay trabajo disponible, la paga es ridícula y se supone que uno tiene que agradecer. ¿Settling con eso? Serio.

Sé que hay mejores oportunidades afuera, obviamente, y más abiertas. Pero no todo el mundo tiene los fondos para simplemente irse, y con lo feo que están las cosas allá fuera ahora mismo, esa opción se complica aún más. Así que, ¿qué se supone que hagamos?