Emigrating to Barbados
 

Hi,

My familiy are British Nationals and live in UK and want to emigrate to Barbados.

We have been numerous times and have fallen in love with the place.

My profession is IT and my two children are 11 and 15.

First question, how easey is it to emigrate there?

Second question, are their are IT jobs on the island?

Thanks.

Re: Emigrating to Barbados
 

I would say it is difficult to immigrate into Barbados. Your best chance is to either have enough money to open a business and apply for visa based on the fact your opening a business or be sponsored by an employer. Unlike Australia, Barbados is not actively looking for new immigrants.

They are additional threads through out the Barbados forum that I recommend you read for additional information.

Re: Emigrating to Barbados
 

Check out this thread for some information as requested

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=667061

Re: Emigrating to Barbados
 

IT is a broad category. It is heavily dependent on tourism. Check what kind of jobs the upscale hotels want in IT category and see if you fit the bill.

Re: Emigrating to Barbados
 

I'm guessing what you are saying is that BARBADOS is heavily dependent on Tourism, but there are many many other companies and business that rely on IT as well. Sooo.. to look only at the hotel sector would be limiting to only one type of work related job search.

Having said that.. IT is also a very big field when it comes to knowledgeable bajans.. Sooo think long and hard about this move.. and know it's not easy at all to make this at this time.

Re: Emigrating to Barbados
 

I agree. I said Tourism right off the bat, because of a few of my friends who are in Toruism/IT :). Ofcourse every vertical industry sector has an extensive IT group to deal with it.

IT IMHO, is a very broad category. Certainly a VLSI Engineer aint going to make any headway in the country :D