The_TeaLady

Hi Guys,

I have worked in sales now for 3 years, started as admin, working on a few accounts for a year and a half and progressed onto be a sales co-ordinator (account manager).
I did not attend college or university I worked as soon as I completed my GCSE's

I am hoping in the next 3 years to be able to afford to live and work in america for a few years, hopefully in account management, and do some travelling.

whats confusing me is the Visa side of thing, ive read alot of info on the different types of visas for working abroad but everything I read seems to mention degrees etc,

Is there a visa that I would be eligable for? I am planning on staying in my role until I can afford to travel which would generally mean I would have 6 years experience??

It has always been my dream to live in america so any help at all would be appreciated a huge amount!! :0) Thankyou!!!

fatbrit

You're not confused at all. Rather you're the blind person looking for the black cat in the dark room -- that isn't even there! Forget it! OZ or NZ are nice.

The_TeaLady

Yea they are not America though what would be my best way of getting a Visa, I really would be happy to change job roles or anything that would help?

pejpm1

Without a degree, or 12 years experience (3 years for each year of education you missed out on) you wont be eligible for the H1B visa which is the visa that a company would need to sponsor you for. They of a very limited number anyway and are very very oversubscribed. They come out on the 1st april and are all applied for on that day, so thats a non-starter.

I dont have a degree but I came over on an L1B visa which is a visa for transferring within the same company. I moved from London to NYC and the visa process was relatively straightforward. Your best bet would be to get a job with a company that has offices both in the UK and in the US. You would then need to work for them for 1 year before you would be eligible for the L1b visa (providing your company are willing to offer you a job in the US office obviously!)..

Remember, in any employment based visa category it is the company that begins the application process. You as an individual cannot 'apply' for a visa.

NC Penguin

Have you read the BE Wiki article about routes to living and working in the USA?

Just in case you haven't, here it is:


Also, if you work in the US legally, there's a fair chance that you won't have the paid vacation to do much traveling in the leisure sense.

The_TeaLady

wow 12 years is a long time, understadably though I guess :0/ are their any jobs which are in high demand in the US that I could do a course in the uk while working which would speed up the process ot a few years???

Thankyou for your help! Guess I better get searching for companies that would sed me over! I would be thoroughly gutted though if I began working and they didnt send me over

ian-mstm

The "best" way? Marry a US citizen. Everything else is the "not-so-best" way.

Ian

The_TeaLady

oooh no I havent seen it, please could you try re-post the link as it didnt seem to work :/ sounds pretty useful!!

I was hoping to travel after I finished working for a year or two before I came back over to the Uk...fingers crossed!! ...well definiflty crossed as it seems im trying to do the impossible *cries*

thanks for your help!

fatbrit

Here you go....the top 20 for 2006:

1 TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED 4887
2 COGNIZANT TECH SOLUTIONS 3520
3 IBM CORP. 1237
4 SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES 950
5 WIPRO LTD 839
6 HCL AMERICA INC 511
7 DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP/ DELOITTE CONSULTING LLP 512
8 PATNI COMPUTER SYSTEMS INC 440
9 INTEL CORP. 394
10 KANBAY INC. 329
11 HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL 320
12 HEWLETT-PACKARD 316
13 INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES 294
14 ACCENTURE LLP 291
15 CARITOR INC 231
16 SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORP 214
17 ORACLE 176
18 SYNTEL LTD 171
19 PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS 168
20 MICROSOFT CORP. 168

ian-mstm

If you went to university for 4 years and got a degree, you'd definitely cut your wait time by 2/3.

Ian

The_TeaLady

ha ha ha ooooh well should I say the not so best way........unless I magically meet hte man of my dreams and hes from the US, now that would save me sooo much time lol

The_TeaLady

Cool thanks for that!! I already have links with hewlett packard and IBM (well I deal with them daily) so maybe my best route :0) *hopes and dreams*

The_TeaLady

Yeah I was hoping to do that but I have to pull two jobs as it is to keep me on top of payments for rent etc so really couldnt afford to give them up to go to uni full time :/ gutting, I knew there was a reason I should have stuck out my education!! if only in school they say "you will never get to america unless you go to college and university" I would have never left!!

fatbrit

Strangely enough, most of the people who relocate to America probably don't have a particularly high level of education. Rather, they fit in one of the narrow niches that provide a path here.

The_TeaLady

aah excellent *goes in search of narrow niche* well fingers crossed I can get a career that will help me get over, probably sounds strange but I jsut feel like I dont belong when im in the UK, ah well, onwards I go with my searching and reading and reading and searching!!

THANKS MUCHLY for your help!!