petitefrancaise

Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek languages need to be learned?

SultanOfSwing

I must point out that visiting the US (even for extended periods, I did it for 2-3 months at a time before moving) isn't the same as living here, working here and trying to scratch together enough money to get by out here. Doubly so if you don't have a working US spouse as your route to get in. Take it from someone who does genuinely like living here, it was not always that way, and I did suffer from extreme culture shock and homesickness for about 3 years after I moved and reality set in. That took a few years to manifest as well. Something as insignificant as my mother selling her house was what kicked it off and my work situation at the time didn't help.

Now, I got over it, but it is a reality of moving anywhere that this kind of thing can happen.

Unfortunately, at this time at least, it doesn't look like you meet any requirements to be able to obtain a visa for the US at this time though, unless you have some more info you could share.

Seriously though, if you really do want to move, have you considered researching if Canada is an option?

You can get Rosetta stone for much less than the cost of a visa to the US (for example). Learning a new language need not be a bar to emigration.

Disenchanted

My apologies, your title seemed to imply you didn't care for the weather and were looking for somewhere more clement.

Pulaski

Have you spent much time in the Carolinas?

Pulaski

Other than sinking your nest egg into a business in exchange for E-2 visas (which have considerable strings attached) you still haven't told us anything that will give you even the faintest hope of visas to live in the US.

mrken30

Wasn't that a song by Shaggy?

scrubbedexpat099

Nope never been.

Never been invited.

Pulaski

I can't imagine why.

sleeplessrowan

Hello my friend, thank you for your honest opinions , it's strange this world we live in ! If your an honest tax paying, hard working (70+ hrs/week) , genuine guy/girl .....you struggle to emirate. .....
call yourself a refugee and doors round the world open for you. .....free housing....free cash handouts.....free medical.....free cars.....free food ...😠😠😠😠😠😠

sleeplessrowan

Lol.....no we are just having a VERY WET winter 💨💦💦💦

christmasoompa

You would rather be a refugee would you?

As for struggling to emigrate, that's not correct - you can easily emigrate, but just not to the US. There are plenty of countries within the EU where you don't even need a visa, but you don't seem to want to move there. If you do want to move to the US, then work towards it - get yourselves degrees (preferably masters too), get married, work your way up in to a senior job where you can get a transfer etc.

Pollyana

Seems he hasn't learnt the first rule of being an expat ..........most things you read in the taboid papers are garbage.

OP - if you are a genuine refugee, then no one should begrudge you the basics of life, but life is still far tougher than you or I could ever imagine.

Pulaski

I can't imagine someone called "Sultan" struggling to "emirate".

SultanOfSwing

Now, you must remember that the US is not obligated to approve a visa for anyone if it doesn't want to, even the comparatively straight forward CR-1 or K1 visas. The whole US immigration system is set up to keep people out of the US, it's only until you get to the naturalization process that they start to want you to succeed.

You can be the hardest working, most regular, honest person in the world, but if you have no ties to the US (work, family, investment), it is meaningless. They have enough honest, genuine, hard working Americans as it is.

Yeah, escaping a war torn country in fear for your life. Some people have it easy.

Ooooo, punarific.