I have a chance to move to Buffalo, my Grandmothers sister ( my Great Aunt ) Lives in Buffalo, her son runs a mediums sized Electical Installation company.

Here in the Uk I am a qualified Electrication and a qualified Air Con and Refrigeration engineer.

He has told me i can go and live in one of his houses and he will give me a job.

Is the process possible, and does it take long, and what type of visa should i look to get. I have a wife and two teenage kids

Any help would be great

Sorry, but no - it is not possible.

The visas are described in the Wiki. None of them fits.

So it is not possible for a qualified trade person like myself, to move to the usa, to live and work even for say 4 years ?

It's possible sure... but only within a fairly narrow criteria. It has nothing to do with him wanting you, or you wanting to work in the US... it has to do with the type of visa for which you would qualify.

Read this... see what, if anything, fits: http://britishexpats.com/wiki/Pulask...ork_in_the_USA.

Ian

No, it's not possible, given the information you've provided.

It is possible for you to go to Canada to live and work with your skill. If you want to move from the UK, look into that possibility.

This is just a suggestion, but couldn't the great aunt's son establish his medium sized electrical company in the UK with the OP being the one and only employee. Just get it registered as a limited company.

Then wait a year and go over on an L1B visa. He could then stay in the US for a few years then, right?

The above is just a wild suggestion... I know next to nothing about the technicalities involved... feel free to shoot it down in flames

You may be qualified there ..but not here unfortunately
Find yourself an American wife ... But this does tend to peeve the current one ...