My parents and I moved to the US on a tourist visa and overstayed in order to live there (I assume like many illegal immigrants have done). I lived in the US for very formative years of my life, so despite only having stayed for 5 years, and even though 11 years have already passed since we moved back to where I was born in, I still feel very connected to the culture, I still talk to friends that live there, and I'd like to move to the US legally.
Besides working for an american company in my country, I don't think I have anything that the US would value if I were to try and move back to the US. No college degree, no company that would send me a job offer for me to be able to move, etc. Although I'm 99% sure that if I were to move, with the experience I have in my line of work, I would be able to get a job quickly. I know companies that are hiring that would benefit from me as an employee because they use software of the company that I work for, and I'm in the technical support desk, but I don't know any of those companies well enough to ask them to send me a job offer if that makes sense.
Knowing my background, is there any chance that I can move back to the US legally? or, as I have assumed for many years, I would actually be lucky if I were to receive a tourist visa since my time spent in the US was illegally?
Thanks for any help in advance!
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