I  will graduate in December 2010 with a BS in Accounting( ~3.7 gpa Tier 2 university in the US). I am doing an audit internship with a regional public accounting firm right now but they told me not to expect getting a job offer at the end of the internship. I am trying to find a job very hard and will continue till December but I am not very optimistic about my chances. I don't think I will be able to land any job. I have enough credit hours to sit for the CPA exam.  I could just find a volunteering opportunity to maintain my status during OPT, take the CPA exams, hope that I will pass the CPA exams on the first try itself and then hope that I will be able to find a job after passing the CPA exams. Or, I could join a Masters program and hope that I will find a job after Masters.

I feel like both of these things will just help me stall the problem. I feel like I am just delaying the inevitable. I was thinking about a third option. I was thinking may be I could go back to Nepal. Rather than studying Masters here and being in the same position in 24 months, will it be better if I go back to Nepal/India and study there? Does anyone have any suggestion for me? Any advice? Do you think banks in Nepal would hire people like me for finance-type positions? I won't be able to practice as a Chartered Accountant in Nepal so my best bet is to find finance job. Are these jobs mostly taken by US-educated MBAs?

Should I think about returning to Nepal or should I just try to figure out ways to somehow maintain legal status and remain in the US? Which is better- 1) returning to Nepal or 2)fraudulent marriage for GC, work through dhoti consultancies, fraudulent asylum, joining masters just to maintain status, army (if MAVNI reopens), Kaplan courses to maintain status