Working for Handshake AI: Airvpn blocked

[John Gow 27]

Edit:  Currently able to slip by on one NYC server. Have no idea why.  If anyone knows of other US servers where one can get back to work on this site, please share.

https://email.m.ai.joinhandshake.com
https://ai.joinhandshake.com/

I am currently in the EU. A friend flew me out here to get me away from the Trump regime, which has been ****ing with my family and livelihood, but I need to work to make money and figure out what I'm going to do with my life (I'm working on a nomad visa). 

I seem to have mixed luck here. On a couple exit IPs from the USA, which I need to appear to be coming in from in order to work, it worked for a bit, but the IPs are now blocked.
I'm not breaking any rules, I get why they would want to block VPNs because cloud labor sites have issues with nationals paying people in other countries to work as them, but I'm a born citizen with a right to work in the USA and not being able to use a VPN is seriously hurting me right now.  Choosing to come in without a VPN gives me a "This project is not available in your region." wall. I have already started work on the project in question, I'm legal, just remote!  Very frustrating.

Is there anything I can do to get past this? It's going to hurt really bad if I can't work on any remote projects because of regional/VPN blocks. 

Thanks everyone!

[SqueekySprout 1]

Honestly, if I was in your position, I would assume you have a place / friends at home in the USA. I would set up your VPN server there and remote in to that connection, rather than going through something like AirVPN. Thousands of people are using these sorts of services and it will be a constant game of whack a mole.

Having your own, private, connection will save you so many headaches.

I personally have a VPN Server which is "home" to do anything local which I need, while travelling. AirVPN is used for when I do not want to be "home".

[reversevpn 10]

If you have any friends inside the US with a residential IP willing to help out, you can perform a reverse VPN connection as follows:
1. On your AirVPN account, forward any UDP Port from the Client Area>Ports(Let's just call it x for the sake of this guide).
2.On your machine, set up a wireguard server with the following parameters:
[Interface]
PrivateKey=(Insert your own wg privatekey here)
ListenPort=x
Address=192.168.181.2/24

[Peers]
PublicKey=(Insert your friend's publicKey here)
AllowedIPs=192.168.181.1
PresharedKey=(Insert presharedkey here)

3.Give your friend a wireguard conf like this:
[Interface]
PrivateKey=(Insert your friend's wg privatekey here)
Address=192.168.181.1/24
[Peers]
PublicKey=(Insert your own publicKey here)
Endpoint= (Insert Your AirVPN Exit IP here):x
AllowedIPs=192.168.181.2
PresharedKey=(Insert presharedkey here)
PersistentKeepalive=10

4. Get your friend to install shadowsocks server on their machine. Their config file should look something like this: 
{
"server": "192.168.181.1",
"server_port": 8388,
"password": "(Insert your own password here)",
"method": "chacha20-ietf-poly1305"
}

5.Get them to start ssserver with the config.json I specified

6. Install shadowsocks on your own machine, and configure it as follows:
{
"server": "192.168.181.1",
"server_port": 8388,
"password": "(Insert same password you gave your friend here)",
"method" : "chacha20-ietf-poly1305",
"local_address": "127.0.0.1",
"local_port": 9500
}
Run sslocal on your side

7. If you haven't already, install mozilla firefox or one of its many forks on your machine.

8.In your Firefox, go to Settings>General>Proxy Settings>Configure proxy, and set up as follows:

9. Go to ipleak.net on your firefox to verify that you are using your friend's residential IP.
10. You may now connect to handshake AI in Firefox 

[John Gow 27]

Okay guys, I appreciate your help. 
Whack-a-mole is a good way to put it. I was able to find some US AirVPN servers that worked and have been working for a few months without problems, but suddenly it seems they've crushed all my usual servers (NYC and Miami). 
Unfortunately, I don't have any US friends back home with a VPN outlet. I simply do not have the option of proxying into an American server as you've recommended. 

I can't be the only client with this issue. I suppose the staff here have to deal with these requests from wannabe digital nomads on a regular basis.
I am not panicking yet, a few times this has simply "fixed itself," but tonight I'm unable to submit the work I've done today to the platform, it's never been quite so difficult as this to find a server that works.

Ugh.

I have an email written, ready to write support saying that I'm traveling in the Balkans and I've established myself as an employee, attended video sessions and have dozens of slack posts with project leads under my belt.
But if I send this, and they say "Sorry, you can't work outside of US borders even if you're on a tourist visa somewhere, period" then I'll be
quite screwed, as nothing will get me in after that. They say they block VPNs "to protect us" and "to protect the platform from fraud." As I am not committing fraud, unless
there's some weird law somewhere that says they can't pay a US citizen who happens to be somewhere else on vacation (and even then, who tf am I hurting??), I find this policy absurd. 

Anyway, that's a bit off topic. Any more advice or help is much appreciated. 

Edit: Yeah, it's a compliance thing. Well... Okay, maybe I'll start panicking. 14 days is quite cruel. 
edit deux: I'm putting feelers out for network-savvy friends in USA who will let me proxy. Thanks again. You'd think that since the labor department has been destroyed and nobody is steering the USS America with any competence, such minor regulations would be ignored, but I imagine it has to do with taxes, and the regime loves themselves some money.