bruce n sheila

Hi we are British expats in Australia but want to know how to get into USA
We have a little one with global development delay and it seems as its free health care in Canada we wouldn't get in as they would feel we will drain the system . Someone told me that British citizens can't get into USA unless they have $100000 or more in assets .. we are currently on holiday in California and prefer it to Perth Australia ... any advise ?????

SultanOfSwing

Read this:

Pulaski's Ways: How to Live and Work in the USA : British Expat Wiki

If you can find a visa category there that you are a fit for, that's how you get in. Otherwise, sorry to say, it's probably not going to happen for you.

Jerseygirl

You do realize healthcare here is extremely expensive and there is no free healthcare available to you?

Stay in Australia or go back to the UK...sorry.

SultanOfSwing

Have you looked into the possibility of getting into Canada? Just noticed you mentioned it here but seem to have dismissed it off hand. It would certainly bring you a lot closer to California.

Try to remember a holiday is not an indication of what living and working here is like. Many (myself included) go through quite a huge bout of culture shock when reality sets in.

Jerseygirl

You cannot get a visa to live in Canada if you are estimated to cost the healthcare system more than $X,XXX per year...I think it's around $7K. Pity the UK doesnt have a similar rule.

Sally Redux

Words fail me.

christmasoompa

That's not correct.

It seems from your previous posts that you're a carpenter, so as you'll have gathered from the Wiki link above, that won't get you a visa to the US. Does your wife have any specialist skills or work in a senior position with a multi-national company? If so, perhaps she'd have more chance of an employment based visa.

Best of luck.

SultanOfSwing

Oh, really? That I did not know.

If the UK had a similar rule, we'd never get in, with my daughter's kidney issues. Guess I'm stuck here either way, non-EU spouse or not

Jerseygirl

Your daughter is British of course she can live in the UK. Sorry I seem to have changed the subject...this forum is not about immigration to the UK.

SultanOfSwing

Sorry, that was my fault.

I genuinely didn't know about that requirement for Canada. So back to the OP's needs. If Australia isn't working out for you, I don't think given your situation that the US would be any better, I'm afriad to say.

Hotscot

But you may be concentrating on the nice, scenic, touristy and very expensive parts.

Take a drive to Stockton, Bakersfield or the Inland Empire and see what you think...

Actually California is very expensive to live in generally and it's currently in drought with no end in sight and no plan to deal with it.

md95065

You mean that kicking the can down the road and hoping that it will rain a bit more next year isn't a "plan"?

sir_eccles

I understand Perth built a load of desalination plants to combat drought conditions there.

Dorothy

That is partly true. We rely on dams as well for our water supply and being a very dry country we are on pretty much permanent water restrictions.

augigi

Sorry the free healthcare available in Australia doesn't suit you. It sounds like a far better option than the no-healthcare available in the US.