Moving to the US options
 

Hi,

I'm Steve and I am new to all this...

Recently I have been thinking of moving to the US, preferably as close to as New York as possible. My girlfriend lives out there and I wish to be there with her as the long distance is starting to get to us and we want a future which currently we don't see with the distance and all...

Now currently I am a civil servant working in London specialising in IT and am wondering if people here with more knowledge than me can provide me with the options I have to move?

My girlfriend and I have no plans to marry (at the moment) so that option isn't really there but I am wondering what possibilities there of emigration to the us through my work?

Thanks in advance for any answers I may receive, If you need any more information let me know.

Cheers

Re: Moving to the US options
 

Pulaski's Ways: How to Live and Work in the USA

Have at it.
Marriage is generally the easiest, but maybe you have a skill we can't find from anyone in the US.
:)

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Then you're screwed until you do have plans to marry.

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I concur ..its marrige or the 7.32 to Victoria ...

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Most typical visa for IT workers is H-1B. Prospective employer sponsors foreign worker. As of now, those visas are capped at 65,000 per year. This fiscal year, more than 65,000 applications arrived on the first day of availability, so the visas were awarded by lottery. Unless the law is changed, the same will happen next year (for employment starting Oct. 2008).
If you follow that path, you need to
1. Find a job in the US
2. Convince employer to file for H1-B
3. Make sure application arrives April 1, 2008
4. Cross your fingers

Move up the wedding plans...

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And because of the massive price hike, it'll seem you've got to have even more worth and niche skills than before to convince an employer to bother with work skills.

Other alternative, get a job with a company that has US offices, work there for at least a year and get them to transfer you....either way, it won't be a move any time soon.

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"sikkinixx66" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> I'm Steve and I am new to all this...
>
> Recently I have been thinking of moving to the US, preferably as close
> to as New York as possible. My girlfriend lives out there and I wish to
> be there with her as the long distance is starting to get to us and we
> want a future which currently we don't see with the distance and all...
>
> Now currently I am a civil servant working in London specialising in IT
> and am wondering if people here with more knowledge than me can provide
> me with the options I have to move?
>
> My girlfriend and I have no plans to marry (at the moment) so that
> option isn't really there but I am wondering what possibilities there of
> emigration to the us through my work?
>
> Thanks in advance for any answers I may receive, If you need any more
> information let me know.

If you're very good in IT, you can try to convince an employer to file an
H-1B application. If you don't plan to marry, it basically boils down to how
good you are at what you're doing... and luck, too.

--
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Marry

Or forget it.

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That's what my girlfriend said when I asked for sex...

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Oh damn... I just spewed coffee all over my monitor! :D

Ian

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Even better, you get to live in the States and have Sex :wub:

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Your kidding after marriage it stops as well ...
or is well regulated...

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It has to be biginning of the relationship or he'd be trying to move in the other direction.:eek: