Immgration to New England
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Immigration to New England
After finishing my QTS year in teaching (first year being qualified) am I able to apply for a work visa in order for me to immigrate to New England or do I have to work for longer before applying? Also how long on average does it take between getting and filling in the application form to being allowed in? I.E if I finish teaching in 2005 from that date approximately when will I be in (if accepted)? Is there a shortage of teachers? How do I go about finding a sponsor and job? Do the USA take kindly to UK teachers? How do I get a mortgage to buy a house out there? Sorry for all the questions but I'm really serious in wanting to move out there. Lastly which is more recommended for a brit to immigrate to New England or Florida? Thanks
Last edited by carrieandphil; Jan 7th 2004 at 7:16 pm.
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You'll need to be sponsored by a school still I believe.
chances are to be sponsored you'll end up teaching at a school in the Bronx or somewhere.
chances are to be sponsored you'll end up teaching at a school in the Bronx or somewhere.
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Teaching in the bronx good or bad?
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well, if you ain't heard of The Bronx you probably deserve to end up there!
Seriously, have you seen that film 'Dangerous Minds'?
Seriously, have you seen that film 'Dangerous Minds'?
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yes thank you, just though somewhere in it maybe half decent at least better than working in Middlesbrough, uk!!!!
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well, if you ain't heard of The Bronx you probably deserve to end up there!
Seriously, have you seen that film 'Dangerous Minds'?
well, if you ain't heard of The Bronx you probably deserve to end up there!
Seriously, have you seen that film 'Dangerous Minds'?
You may have to be re-certified in the US as nurses have to be ..
New England is nice but cooler ..Florida is Hot
Believe me !!! Middlesborough would be considered heaven compared to the Bronx
Last edited by ray6; Jan 7th 2004 at 7:42 pm.
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Re: Immigration to New England
Originally posted by carrieandphil
After finishing my QTS year in teaching (first year being qualified) am I able to apply for a work visa in order for me to immigrate to New England or do I have to work for longer before applying? Also how long on average does it take between getting and filling in the application form to being allowed in? I.E if I finish teaching in 2005 from that date approximately when will I be in (if accepted)? Is there a shortage of teachers? How do I go about finding a sponsor and job? Do the USA take kindly to UK teachers? How do I get a mortgage to buy a house out there? Sorry for all the questions but I'm really serious in wanting to move out there. Lastly which is more recommended for a brit to immigrate to New England or Florida? Thanks
After finishing my QTS year in teaching (first year being qualified) am I able to apply for a work visa in order for me to immigrate to New England or do I have to work for longer before applying? Also how long on average does it take between getting and filling in the application form to being allowed in? I.E if I finish teaching in 2005 from that date approximately when will I be in (if accepted)? Is there a shortage of teachers? How do I go about finding a sponsor and job? Do the USA take kindly to UK teachers? How do I get a mortgage to buy a house out there? Sorry for all the questions but I'm really serious in wanting to move out there. Lastly which is more recommended for a brit to immigrate to New England or Florida? Thanks
Are you saying you have only a year's worth of teaching experience in the UK and want to apply for a visa to teach in the US?
If the above paragraph is true, if I were you, I'd get at least a few more years teaching experience under your belt before applying for a US visa.
I would also suggest looking at the US government's website on employment and immigrant visas to check eligibility. If you are married, please read carefully about the type of visa your spouse would be eligible for.
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There are many teachers from Down Under and South Africa teaching in London (although I guess the Kiwis and Aussies only intend to work in the UK for a couple of years or so then go back home). However, they often end up in schools in places like Hackney as few British teachers want to work there.
It's the same in the US. You can get a job, but it's likely to be in a crime-infested or/and high immigrant area with many pupils coming from 'broken homes' and having social or behavioural problems. I know of a lady from the Philippines who managed to get an H1 visa to work as a maths teacher in Newark, New Jersey - which I guess could be compared to Hackney, Deptford or Brixton. Newark school also employ expat teachers from the Indian subcontinent and will basically employ any fluent English speaker from what I can tell - epecially if they have a specialism in the maths and sciences. If you are *very* keen to take on such a job, you could go to the State dept. website and look up their education pages eg. The State Dept. of Massachusetts or State Dept of New Jersey.
There is a British school near Boston, but I doubt that they will employ a newly qualified teacher as they can pick and choose from the 'creme-de-la-creme'. Here's the website:
http://www.britishschool.org
It's the same in the US. You can get a job, but it's likely to be in a crime-infested or/and high immigrant area with many pupils coming from 'broken homes' and having social or behavioural problems. I know of a lady from the Philippines who managed to get an H1 visa to work as a maths teacher in Newark, New Jersey - which I guess could be compared to Hackney, Deptford or Brixton. Newark school also employ expat teachers from the Indian subcontinent and will basically employ any fluent English speaker from what I can tell - epecially if they have a specialism in the maths and sciences. If you are *very* keen to take on such a job, you could go to the State dept. website and look up their education pages eg. The State Dept. of Massachusetts or State Dept of New Jersey.
There is a British school near Boston, but I doubt that they will employ a newly qualified teacher as they can pick and choose from the 'creme-de-la-creme'. Here's the website:
http://www.britishschool.org
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I am in the process of my application for a fiance visa and will be moving to Boston. My fiance studied to be a teacher a while back but didn't take it up for various reasons. She told me that she can't teach now even if she wanted to because it was compulsory for teachers (at least in Massachussetts I'm not sure about the rest of New England) to be able to speak Spanish as well as English. She may be wrong but I'd look into it.
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Thank you, your reply was a god send!!! I have emailed the school and requested more information so hopefully they will be really helpful either with teaching at their school or in state schools. Thanks once again.
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She told me that she can't teach now even if she wanted to because it was compulsory for teachers (at least in Massachussetts I'm not sure about the rest of New England) to be able to speak Spanish as well as English. She may be wrong but I'd look into it.
That's got to be the dummest thing thing that I have read in this place.
Now, if she was wanting to teach in say, Miami then I could understand the Spanish requirment.
That's one of the reasons I chose not to stay in South Florida.
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[cough] Bollox [/cough]
That's got to be the dummest thing thing that I have read in this place.
Now, if she was wanting to teach in say, Miami then I could understand the Spanish requirment.
That's one of the reasons I chose not to stay in South Florida.
[cough] Bollox [/cough]
That's got to be the dummest thing thing that I have read in this place.
Now, if she was wanting to teach in say, Miami then I could understand the Spanish requirment.
That's one of the reasons I chose not to stay in South Florida.
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Are my job chances better in Florida or New England? Or somewhere completely different and not the Bronx!!!!
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Originally posted by carrieandphil
Are my job chances better in Florida or New England? Or somewhere completely different and not the Bronx!!!!
Are my job chances better in Florida or New England? Or somewhere completely different and not the Bronx!!!!
worry about that later.
h1-B visa's are hard enough to come by as it is, without being a picky bastard.
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Su bienvenida señor, tiene un dÃa agradable.
Su bienvenida señor, tiene un dÃa agradable.