Just quick remark, if you hope to work in the USA, this will only happen if your family in the US are your mother or your father, otherwise forget about ways to work in the US, unless you of course get married there.
Doing FAA and JAA, is not the most economical way of doing it, but you will find most telling you do invest in your future with some sort of degree, because flying jobs are not easy to get now, but this changes all the time, and you have have plenty of time to come into the positive cycle of things.