How does a kid from a South American slum become a FBI Agent?
I would recommend you focus less on the procedural nuts-and-bolts and more on what the accomplishment will require from your character personally – living in a slum, and climbing one’s way out, must put a person in a least a few morally gray areas; I’d rather read a story about a young, burdened man’s struggle to stay decent than a story about a young man’s successful application for immigration or the nitty-gritty of attending law school or entering a city’s police academy. If your story calls for this young man to get out of the slum and into the FBI, then you simply need to write it happening, you don’t need to force the reader to acknowledge it as possible. You’ve already got an angel in your story, so your readers are going to suspend some disbelief to enjoy your tale anyhow. If you truly envision your story as about the specific procedural obstacles to immigration, education, etc, then you should really do some specific research, maybe by contacting the FBI and/or Immigration aut
