Emigrating to USA

glenimp617 · 3 Apr 2013 at 10:56

Yes, actually thinking about it......just find someone to marry

DONE

djxput · 3 Apr 2013 at 11:00

glen8 said:
Yes, actually thinking about it......just find someone to marry

DONE

Or ... if you are from one of the southern countries you sneak in and get to stay and work and eventually get to be a citizen without having to go through any immigration.

I wish the states would let in more people from the UK with skills and less from mexico without.

gl with things

panthro · 3 Apr 2013 at 11:10

This is a (leftfield) alternative, but you can get employed by an American company in the UK, get to know the company and your job; once you're comfortable and have enough knowledge you can apply for jobs within the company based in the USA if the company allows it. I've worked for 2 American companies now and have known several people to do this and are now happily living in the good ol' US of A.

King Damager · 3 Apr 2013 at 11:15

DIABLO said:
Yeah god forbid i ever visit that **** hole Canada

To be fair, I have no design to emigrate to Canada. The US has however been somewhere I've considered recently.

kd

Ev0 · 3 Apr 2013 at 11:43

panthro said:
This is a (leftfield) alternative, but you can get employed by an American company in the UK, get to know the company and your job; once you're comfortable and have enough knowledge you can apply for jobs within the company based in the USA if the company allows it. I've worked for 2 American companies now and have known several people to do this and are now happily living in the good ol' US of A.

Yup this is a way to do it, albeit possibly more of a longer plan as you've got to do the initial 'getting established' over here within the company first.

I'm similar though, work for a rather large US firm and once you're in I think you're pretty free to apply for jobs across the globe, pending any citizenship requirements for a role (i.e. Gov/Military stuff in another country you would likely need to already be a citizen).

It's something I've thought about but not sure I'd want to do a perm move somewhere, a temp assignment somewhere could be interesting though.

XeNoN89 · 3 Apr 2013 at 11:53

I work for a company with an Office in Texas, I guess it wouldn't be too hard to move over there for me if I got transferred to there?

MickeyFinns · 3 Apr 2013 at 12:22

Funnily enough this has been announced today;

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/03/h_1b_visa_2014_season/

Scougar · 3 Apr 2013 at 14:00

MickeyFinns said:
Funnily enough this has been announced today;

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/03/h_1b_visa_2014_season/

Thanks for the link :-D

BTW.. it's hard enough when you ARE married to an American, let alone another way. The easiest other way is to get employment via an existing company (with worldwide branches)... but bear in mind if you lose your job you will have to go back home.

I'm currently emigrating and when it's done it will have taken almost twice as long as it should have taken :-(

(20 months instead of 10). Get the US Citizen (and any others) to get their tax returns done in advance where possible (for sponsorship purposes), and have the forms almost ready by the time you get the 'yes/no' back from the initial "Can you apply" decision.

What I advise you to do if you are in the UK with an American relationship.. is file for a DCF (Direct Consular Filing) so it may take as little as 3 months.

BTW.. even once you emigrate you still have to wait for a green card when you get there (upto 90 days) so you better have funds to cover that transition period at minimum.