LathamJD

Hi, basically I am 22 years old, I am male and see myself as a adventurous, polite young adult. My dream is to move to New York and work there. I feel like the life style in New York is incredible. The whole life style is just so me. I'm not going to lie, the only qualifications I have is that ok a qualified plasterer and have a GCSE in Catering. I would love to move and work in New York in a year or so but have NO idea on where to start? Any help and advice would be much appreciated! Where do I start? What do I need to move there? How much money would j need to save up before hand? Who can I speak too?

Thank you for any replies in advance and take care.

Noorah101

Sorry, but plasterer and catering are probably not careers that will lead to a visa to live and work in the USA.

Look in our Wiki for the article called Pulaski's Ways, that shows all the various ways to the USA.

At your age, I suggest a student visa, which could lead to meeting a potential USC love interest, and maybe an interested employer when you graduate.

Rene

Pulaski

Sorry, but I see nothing in your post that indicates you have any way to live and work in the US, nothing at all.

To work in the US, as per the link that Noorah pointed you towards, you either need a close family member to sponsor you, or you need to have substantial sum to invest ($six figures, preferably several), or you need a degree in your chosen occupation (or experience equivalent to a degree, minimum 12 years of it).

You appear to be a country mile away from qualifying under any of those three categories. Sorry, again.

civilservant

I would recommend match.com and go from there. From what you have said, a USC love interest is your only prospect.

Pulaski

Incidentally, US homes are made without plaster, so your skill as a plasterer would not lead directly to employment anyway. Here plasterboard (US = "drywall", or sometimes the brand name "Sheetrock") is hung "front side out" then the joints are skimmed with jointing compound and reinforced with paper or mesh tape. Even older houses that were plastered are typically restored using drywall if/when the lath and plaster is removed.

scrubbedexpat099

I have a plastering job, but it would need to be on the VWP and I am a long way from NY.

Up to you how successful you would be with the ladies.

username.exe

Out here they appear to 'mud' or coat their mcmansions in an external plaster-like substance. If you were a half decent plasterer you'd probably be fine doing that, although the level of work is probably nowhere near as high as it would be in the UK.

scrubbedexpat099

Stucco

But mainly a Mexican business, well it is in Colorado.

Pulaski

I would guess the skill is transferable, but given the skill required to finish plaster to the smoothness expected, I would think that daubing on stucco would be a less skilled occupation.

In any case stucco is very rare in NY.

AdobePinon

Plenty of exterior stucco and interior plaster in NM, but it's a long way from NY. And like Boiler says, it's a Mexican business.

MMcD

Given your catering interest - I wonder whether the CIA might be a path for you (hardly cheap-o, however)

NO!....not that CIA
This one:

The Culinary Institute of America : CIA Admissions and Financial Aid
also:
http://www.ciachef.edu/international-students/

excpomea

Still think the best way for a young man to emigrate to the States is to hook up via Match.com
Meet a nice American girl (Or chap dependent on persuasion) They love the accent so your half way there.
Get married and live the dream..

Worked for my daughter, she met an American guy online. He thought she was exotic
A few years later they were married and living in Denver.
Quicker than myself sponsoring a 25 year old daughter.

london_calling

Just wondering, how is this in any way different to people obtaining a passport through Thai Brides - Thai ladies seeking marriage or Ukraine Brides | Ukrainian Women | Marriage Ukraine Ladies? Because those seem kind of sad, but fit a need I suppose.

scrubbedexpat099

Like tingtong?

Pulaski

I agree with what you're thinking, but there is no "clear bright line" dividing the two areas. I see one as more objectification than the other, but perhaps finding accent attractive is not so different. And if that is the issue then both Mrs P and I are guilty, though we both admit we are so used to each other that we no longer hear the accent.

I also think that the "ethnic dating" sites attract the more, er, desperate on both sides of the table, but maybe I am being unduly harsh?

For disclosure purposes, I met Mrs P on a dating web site, it was as much out of curiosity as anything, but maybe I am just trying to fool myself. I don't think I was desperate.

A university friend of mine was killed, allegedly by the Russian mafia, after marrying a Russian woman in what appears to have been a set-up/trap. He was visiting her (she refused to leave Russia) when he was hit an killed by vehicle under suspicious circumstances after his wife went back into the restaurant "to fetch her gloves".