Usa move
Jun 20th 2016, 2:50 pm
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Re: Usa move
The "magic words" which people recommend that you ask your GP to include in his/her letter is that "you are not a danger to yourself or others, nor are you likely to be in future."
Jun 20th 2016, 3:10 pm
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Re: Usa move
Everything is sent through the post or via courier.
No, because getting his US passport is irrelevant to your immigration plans. Remember - he is a USC and so doesn't need the services of US immigration (except as it applies to you and the children). He is a USC and can freely return to the US any time he wants... but by US law, all US citizens must enter/exit the US using a US passport.
Here's a thought - is your husband also a UK citizen? If not, there's a definite advantage to getting that process over with before you all return to the US.
Ian
No, because getting his US passport is irrelevant to your immigration plans. Remember - he is a USC and so doesn't need the services of US immigration (except as it applies to you and the children). He is a USC and can freely return to the US any time he wants... but by US law, all US citizens must enter/exit the US using a US passport.
Here's a thought - is your husband also a UK citizen? If not, there's a definite advantage to getting that process over with before you all return to the US.
Ian
Jun 20th 2016, 3:54 pm
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Re: Usa move
Which is the reason why in the future you should take US Citizenship (3 years after entry into the US as long as you are still married to your husband). Makes it easier for you return to the US if you were to leave back to the UK and if you become a US Citizen your eldest son becomes one as well piggy backed on your naturalization as long as he is under 18.
Jun 20th 2016, 3:57 pm
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Which is the reason why in the future you should take US Citizenship (3 years after entry into the US as long as you are still married to your husband). Makes it easier for you return to the US if you were to leave back to the UK and if you become a US Citizen your eldest son becomes one as well piggy backed on your naturalization as long as he is under 18.
Jun 20th 2016, 4:02 pm
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Re: Usa move
His educational status is irrelevant, subject to him having at least a rudimentary understanding of English (not exactly an issue for native English speakers
) and enough understanding of US history and government to pass the citizenship test.At 18 he will be required to register with the Selective Service (potentially for conscription), but nobody has been "drafted" since the end of the Vietnam war, and given the trend of warfare to become progressively more high-tech, I can't imagine any scenario where anyone is ever drafted again.
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Jun 21st 2016, 7:34 am
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Re: Usa move
Ok so about to get forma needed. Do i need to do all the forms at once for me and children or just me for now..before going to usa in October?
Jun 21st 2016, 1:10 pm
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Re: Usa move
Someone said an Lr1 form is this correct?
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Jun 25th 2016, 2:35 am
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As for your husband's employment, construction work depends on many things. Some areas only employ union workers. If he is not a hands on construction worker and only familiar with being a manager of sorts, it will be more difficult for him.
...While you are in the US in October, he should plan on visiting numerous construction companies and talking to them about how he can find employment and what kind of employment he can find with them.
I was very hands on in general construction in the UK, specialising in refurbs (remodelling) but have worked on new builds. I'm working in the industry again but find myself in the strange position of being highly skilled and yet learning the whole process over again as little more than a glorified labourer.
At least in Florida, I may just as well be on a different planet, I always thought the French had some unusual building techniques but everything is done totally differently out here.
More surprisingly, is that even high quality construction work is pretty much comparable (as evidenced by work carried out in the Carolina's, yet to work on any high quality jobs in Florida!!!) to the standard of work expected from the esteemed gentlemen who tarmac your driveway, then escort you to the cashpoint for their payment.
Everything is built on the cheap in Florida (although the firms know how to charge!) and not expected to have a very long life span, presumably because they expect it to get blown away??? I've seen drywall framing being an inch out of true over a six foot length (that's another thing, they are resolutely stuck in using imperial measurements...except for medical issues, hope he's old enough to remember how feet and inches work!!!), roofs replaced after 15 years lifespan and the 'quality' home that we currently rent has had chronic concrete floor movement in just the year in which we've occupied it - floor tiles cracked in three feet lines throughout the house (which weren't there when we moved in!) and a new depression under one of the carpeted living rooms, about eight feet long, two feet wide and two inches deep, in a 14 year old property!!!!
Terminology is slightly different but fairly easy to pick up if you are working with it every day.
And just to rub it in the wages are absolute shite, I earn approximately 10% of my UK hourly wage (or about 66% of what I used to pay an experienced construction labourer in the UK), with no paid benefits. I dread to think what the local Hispanic chaps working under the table are paid.
I had hoped to set up as a self-employed handyman but it's not overly simple registering as a contractor from scratch - presumably each state has considerably different requirements for sole traders so it may be worth checking out that route.
Jun 25th 2016, 2:32 pm
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Re: Usa move
He is a hands on worker but is responsible for the people who work with him. Hes a ground worker so doing road laying curbs and building foundations for houses. This aide of things concern me..i dont want to be in a worse situation financially than we are here. The same woukd be fine. We are looking at woodstock in Georgia . Z
