want2move2USA

Hi,

My boyfriend and I are hoping to move to the USA when i graduate from a UK uni in 2011. He has a very good job in I.T working for a great international company who have offices worldwide so he would no problem transferring or being able to stay in America.

However, I have no idea how I will be able to get a VISA in the USA or any reason for the USA to give me a job when they have millions of their own graduates!!!

I do not have a set career in mind and will be open to most kinds of reasonable graduate level employment.

If anyone has any advice I would really appreciate it so I can start thinking about us moving properly!

PS marriage is not the kind of advice I mean if that would help as that is something I would consider if it happened but am not going to use it as a means of securing moving out there!

nettlebed

Read THIS. If you don't meet any of the criteria there, then marriage is probably your only choice so that you can get a derivative visa from him.

BTW, just because he has a great job in an international company, it's not a slam dunk that he will be able to transfer and stay.

fatbrit

Marriage may indeed not be the kind of advice you want. But if your goal is to move to the US with your bf, it's the most sensible advice you'll hear.

Anyway assuming not, you'll have to do it on your own or stay where you already are.

Opening are listed here: http://britishexpats.com/wiki/Pulaski_Simplified
Help us to help you.

wordfool

Agreed. The OP might want to nail that down before considering the next phase of the plan.

I went the L1 route (British company with American subsidiary) in the 1990s and I would not call it anywhere near a slam dunk, even in those heady pre-911 days. I worked hard to engineer myself a position that was truely niche, and I also benefited from a lot of "right place, right time" luck.

Hopefully it'll work out by 2011 when recession starts to lift in the US, but consider that a lot of multinationals also prefer to only offer temporary overseas contracts.

As for the OP getting a job... is teaching something that might be a path to an H1?

want2move2USA

hey thanks for replies. No teaching is a route I don't want to take even though I had thought about it. I have looked the second criteria link given but you have not said how much of itI need to conform with? I do not have any links with american citizens/ family etc but I will have a degree which is one of the tick boxes...

So really the idea of moving out there is not a plan worth looking into then...

If we wanted to move just temporarily would that be a major issue?

I worked in NY this summer on th J-1 visa, surely there is a visa to work in america for a year or so in which case I could get that?

Thanks

Marocco

There are no other options apart from the ones in the link you have been given.

Flabound oneday

oh if only, life would be so much easier.......

Orangepants

I totally agree - I got a great job with a US bank in 2006, moved to London in Feb 2007 (from the Cayman Islands) to do the overseas year and after I had completed the year, the bank almost failed, was bought and I was left hanging for another 6 months (in London) and then the promise of L1b visa, GC etc etc was taken away and I was back to square one.

BritishGuy36

If you want to benefit from the experience of folks here, you need to listen to the answers given to your questions. You've already been given two links to the wiki article on what visas are available. Read them.

The US is one of the hardest countries in the world to obtain a visa for to live and work here. There is no 'come and live and work here for a year on a whim' visa.

They don't want you here. They don't need you here. Only a select few fit into the slender categories for which visas are issued. The US immigration services are there to stop you getting in unless you qualify, not to help you.

Marriage is highly likely to be your only way into the US.

meauxna

IF the boyfriend gets a transfer + visa.
Which hasn't yet been established.

Eric S

One other option you have if you don't want to marry your boyfriend. If he winds getting an H-1B or L-1 visa, and you live together, you may qualify for a B-1 cohabiting partner visa. Unfortunately, you can not work in the US with that visa.

- Eric S.

want2move2USA

Ok thanks for responses although BritishGuy36 I am not sure why you have to come across so rude?Anyway I shall have a think about what you all have said. Thanks.

Ozzidoc

Check your karma messages, which you can find under ''my profile'.

dunroving

I'm afraid that's not an uncommon response when advice is given but is perceived to have not been followed - one could say that ignoring the advice someone has taken time to give is also rude.

It also comes from spending freely-given time over the years to provide answers and gradually developing a short fuse when you think it's not appreciated or heeded. Sorry, but over the years, we've all seen it too often.

chrisfromusa

He's not being rude he's telling the truth. Have you tried looking at Canada? Or is the weather the main motivator in your move? In that case, I'd look at Australia.