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Any advice would be great,

I would like to leave the UK, i would like to move to sunny pastures

I know at one time the US was very hard to move to

Is this still the Case.

Thanks Lee

Lonewolf;763519 wrote: Any advice would be great,

I would like to leave the UK, i would like to move to sunny pastures

I know at one time the US was very hard to move to



Is this still the Case.



Thanks Lee
Just fly to Mexico and swim across the Rio Grande (its not very deep). There are plenty of vegetable picking jobs available out in the sunny pastures..:wah:









Note: This is only intended to be a joke:wah:

YZGI;763524 wrote: Just fly to Mexico and swim across the Rio Grande (its not very deep). There are plenty of vegetable picking jobs available out in the sunny pastures..:wah:









Note: This is only intended to be a joke:wah:


Having been through the process of moving to USA, I think Wisey suggestion is very tempting :wah:

To work in the US, you will need proper identification. A valid passport is good.

It also depends on what field you wish to work.

In the country or in a city? City wages are generally higher, but the cost of living is also higher.

Will you have your own dependable transportation?

I think it might take quite awhile to become a citizen, I had a friend from Russia who wasn't a citizen until he lived here for 6 years! But, that whole time he was able to work and go to school....its basically a paper saying your a citizen. I don't know if you want to become a citizen or not....just a thought. As far as work goes, its quite easy as long as you have to right paperwork and identification! You'll have to figure out where you want to work and live...while big cities are more expensive, they are also easier to find housing and work! Good Luck!

From one foreigner who has spent a lot of time in the USA.

It is increasingly difficult to enter the United States at all, even if this is just in transit to somewhere else. You need a valid passport and probably a visa specifying police checks etc. Some countries have visa waiver agreements with the US - Australia does - but this also means you have limited entry, and must be fingerprinted and eye printed on entry. You can only stay a short time, and cannot work.

Here's some general information about the different visas etc available

http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/

Good luck !!!

AP...how come you can't work in US if your from another country? I've had friends from other countries that came here and worked and went to school....but maybe it had something to do with them applying to be a citizen? Just curious about why your experience was so different?

Thanks for the replies.

I was think south Florida may be Miami?

Not sure what work is available in the US

I ve been in retail sales for 20 years but would like

a complete change.

I would like to maybe get inviled with animals, maybe

dog warden or maybe working at a Sealife centre,

but hey, a jobs a job whatever i can get to make a start

is good

Lee

OMG! I have always wanted to live in Florida!!! Miami is a huge city! But who can beat the weather? Lucky you if you do end up there!!!!:p

drumbunny1;763595 wrote: AP...how come you can't work in US if your from another country? I've had friends from other countries that came here and worked and went to school....but maybe it had something to do with them applying to be a citizen? Just curious about why your experience was so different?


There are different visas. You can get in on a tourist visa but to get it you have to agree not to work while you're there and to leave before the deadline on it expires.

To work in the US you don't need to want to become a citizen, you need either an Employment Authorization Document or you need a US company to make a successful non-immigrant worker petition on your behalf.

To get a Employment Authorization Document you need to qualify, essentially it's for political asylum seekers and foreign spouses of US citizens. And a dozen other arcane excuses like you're on a full-time US education course and you get one of these to allow you to work alongside getting your course credits. It needs renewing annually.

For a non-immigrant worker petition you roughly need to be doing something that no existing US resident can do and to have an offer of employment saying this is the case, and your work permit will expire if the job ends. It's how post-doc researchers end up working in US research labs.

spot;763665 wrote: There are different visas. You can get in on a tourist visa but to get it you have to agree not to work while you're there and to leave before the deadline on it expires.

To work in the US you don't need to want to become a citizen, you need either an Employment Authorization Document or you need a US company to make a successful non-immigrant worker petition on your behalf.

To get a Employment Authorization Document you need to qualify, essentially it's for political asylum seekers and foreign spouses of US citizens. And a dozen other arcane excuses like you're on a full-time US education course and you get one of these to allow you to work alongside getting your course credits. It needs renewing annually.

For a non-immigrant worker petition you roughly need to be doing something that no existing US resident can do and to have an offer of employment saying this is the case, and your work permit will expire if the job ends. It's how post-doc researchers end up working in US research labs.


Or set up a company with more than 51% ownership. I think? Am I right my spotted friend?

If you have enough money, normal rules do not apply.

ThePheasant;763671 wrote: Or set up a company with more than 51% ownership. I think? Am I right my spotted friend?
That would surprise me, it's dirt cheap to set up a US company, a loophole like that would have millions getting in through it.

AP's quite right about there being a money qualification if you have enough to wave, that applies to the UK as well. I'm here to invest, you announce. Welcome aboard, they respond. Maybe this mixed with Pheasy's start-a-company is the same issue.

spot;763683 wrote: That would surprise me, it's dirt cheap to set up a US company, a loophole like that would have millions getting in through it.

AP's quite right about there being a money qualification if you have enough to wave, that applies to the UK as well. I'm here to invest, you announce. Welcome aboard, they respond. Maybe this mixed with Pheasy's start-a-company is the same issue.


Looks like the E visa ...

http://www.visausa.co.uk/visas/e2.php

Lonewolf;763519 wrote: Any advice would be great,

I would like to leave the UK, i would like to move to sunny pastures

I know at one time the US was very hard to move to

Is this still the Case.

Thanks Lee


Isnt life interesting... I investigated every possible means of living and working in the UK... and it doesnt seem possible for me either. Ill give you a few tips. It is so huge here, that if you pick the right city, no one will ever check to see if you are illegal. The problem is that your choices of employment would be very limited. As an illegal, you would be hard pressed to have a career type job. Food service, landscaping, commercial cleaning, all hire illegal people to work. But because they are illegal, they pay them very little. It is a disgrace actually, as most illegal immigrants in the US, put in a harder days work than Americans. As far as Florida goes... other than the warm climate, youd better do some real homework regarding living there. There are other warm places to live, that might be more appealing to you than Florida. And be really careful about the cost of living, which fluctuates greatly, state to state.