10 years in EM sellside - want to relocate to US

Looking for advise from US based folks working with public markets (buyside/sellside)

My background: grew up in EM (non-target uni) > BB Equity Research based in Emerging mkt > various roles within BB Equity desk in EM (fundamental stock coverage, run portion of desk book and ext HF alpha capture, Eq Vol sales and pricing, even did trading for 1 year)

Basically I have spent all my career (ca10 years) in Equity focused roles based across different EM geographies. For several personal reasons I would love to relocate to the US and my current employer would not do internal mobility (esp with the US working visa headache), so the only viable option on the table for me is go the talent visa route and resign from my current role (which I honestly don’t mind as this business is dying and sooner or later I’ll catch the falling knife).

My goal is to land a buyside role focusing on EM (as I believe this is where I have an edge and what I love doing the most) or just join the sellside as a plan B (desk/research or any growing business like ETFs ) in the US

 Would love to hear your opinions on

1. How symmetric is the risk/reward scenario of this strategy? Let’s assume I’m no longer in my current seat in 6-12m as base case
2. How relevant is BB EM experience in the US and if there is a mkt for this craft at all? Im open to focus on US equities, but to me it makes more sense to play in a certain niche, yet I realise its a much smaller pond 

Any other thoughts are highly welcome

Thank you!

PS. Im not putting MBA as an option due to high opportunity cost (mainly time) and it would not give me any new skills