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A much more appropriate thing for the director to have done would have been to ask “What would it take to convince you to stay?” If they’ve put as much effort as they say into hiring you (can confirm, hiring international students does require a lot of paperwork and sometimes legal consultations, but it’s hard for me to imagine that they didn’t know what they were getting into), they should have done more to incentivize you to stay, instead of blaming you for wanting to leave. You’ve done everything by the book at this point, as long as you didn’t sign a contract committing to a certain length of employment, which in architecture is unlikely. If it was me, I’d give them a week or so to announce my departure, and if they don’t, I’d pull aside my PMs in private and tell them the date of my last day. C’est la vie…
You are 100% entitled to tell people that you have resigned, and that includes colleagues AND clients.
I suspect HR often doesn't want anyone to know that someone is leaving, and that's why they don't tell anyone until the last minute, if at all.
You can tell your director and/or HR that you would like them to tell your clients by 1 week after your resignation, or YOU will do so, so that you can have a professional project handoff to someone else on your team. It looks good for you and your firm.