moving to orlando
 

hi there me and my family are looking into moving to florida but do not know we're to start we are based in the UK I'm a self employed electrician running my own business and want a better life for my kids and florida seems to be our favourite place just wanted to know if anyone can give us some advice/tips on we're to start

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Starting point would be checking out this thread http://britishexpats.com/forum/us-im...ork-us-585898/

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Jon,

In your eyes, what qualifies as a better life? What is better about Orlando than wherever you are currently in the UK?

Is it the warm weather and Disney? Living here is not like the bubble of a vacation you experience.

How old are your children?

Do your due diligence and read the stickied post at the top.
If you're really serious, this is going to have to be a long-term plan for you.
Think ten years or so. Don't be disheartened. It's just really difficult to move here unless you have the right combination of qualifications, family connections, luck, perseverance, tenacity.

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I have asked that this thread be moved to the general forum as it is not about an immigration visa in progress nor one being started but rather a general question on how to immigrate to the US.

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hi there I'm aware of the vacation bubble the weather is a big factor in it we live in Yorkshire and it rains a lot it's currently rained for about 3 days straight now there just seems more opportunity for work and education seems to be better our schools round here don't actually teach to a degree they just teach you how to take exams

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sorry my kids are 14 and 5 and we have two dogs as well

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Perhaps move elsewhere in the UK where it doesn't rain every day for days on end? Or someplace in Europe where you won't require a visa to live.

You're an electrician. Your current skills are not a match for US employment. You would have to retrain and be licensed and if you didn't want to work for yourself, more likely than not, you would have to join a union in order to work. No telling if a union would accept you as a member until you are retrained and licensed.

As for education, you are about only 1 in 5 people who have ever voiced that opinion.

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I'm prepared to 're train I'm qualified to quite a high level in the UK I'm also trained as an air conditioning enginer from leaving school i just want a better life for my family and the US seems like it tickes all the boxes for us

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What US qualifications do you have?

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All the boxes except the ability to get a visa to live and work in the USA. Which one of the visas in that link looks suitable to you? Let us know and we can discuss.

Rene

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my qualifications are UK spec so to speak they are 17th edition wireing regulations part p elctrices and 2395 inspection and testing also I'm level 3 in air conditioning and have my f gas as well but like I said these are UK spec so not sure what that relates to us

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the h1 visa looks like it would be the most achievable

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Those qualifications will mean diddly squat to the US, you would have to start from scratch to get any qualifications there, however from what you have posted there is an almost 0% chance of you ever getting a visa, unless you have loads of money stashed away to go the E-2 route or, even more expensive E5 route, the E5 would at least get you a green card, but you do need to think of having around £500,000 which you can afford to lose.

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Trying to work out what basis you could move, basically they are family job and investment, family and job are the biggies but they seem to be out.

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But you have no qualifications?