chicagojlo

Waited 5 hours just to get seen when we went. But it was the day after MLK so there was a long line! Note - don't go to the office the day after it's been closed for 3 days!

Thatslife

at the moment we do not have one, that is the first thing we are going to apply for when we get there.

chicagojlo

Yeah good luck with that. It doesn't work that way I'm afraid...

MsElui

You DONT have a visa? you are either very brave, mad or stupid! not to mention that you wont be able to get an ssn without it as you have no legal right to work without it.

Ray

You have to get the visa before you even fly ...

Do you want to tell us your situation ...

chicagojlo

Ray I was thinking it was you that posted previously about the people who sell up all they have and turn up at Orlando airport, kids in tow, asking for a visa to live and work there?

Ray

Not that I recall ..but it does happen ....

they fly back the same day ...

Bill_S

Sigh... I suspected as much. You aren't the first to think that you could simply up sticks and relocate to the US at your convenience. However, without an appropriate immigration status in the US, you can't. Please read this article:

How to live in the USA

and see if any of it applies to you. If not, you're going to find it very difficult to make a permanent move to the US.

meauxna

A visa is a document that allows you to ask permission to enter a country--you can not get one when you get here.

OR, without one, you can't get inside.

What's the rest of your plan?

MsElui

its all the fault of bloody eastenders/corrie. It gives people the notion that you can just say im going to go to live in america and do it the following week without any visa etc. they should feature a storyline of how hard it actually is to emigrate somewhere to help the bloke on the street understand.

chicagojlo

You never know, they could have thought we were talking about visa as in visa debit. But I highly doubt it.
MsElui you are spot on, I mean Pauline Fowler just upping sticks and 'moving' to live with Michelle with one day's notice and a phone call. It just doesn't work that way! I think they should show someone first of all going through all the bother of emigration, then all the bother of coming back when it doesn't turn out to be the bed of roses they thought it would be.
Then again Eastenders was home to the benefit cheating Millers and nobody seemed to give a crap about that.

meauxna

Yes, because we can all envision what fascinating TV viewing *that* would make.
Endless shots of people waiting on hold with the "customer service" line, obsessive checking on the online status, just show the page and 'refresh' 'refresh' 'refresh', the 3 hour waiting room experience at the Embassy.. who wouldn't want to watch that?!

chicagojlo

It would make a good soap opera sometimes I think. I mean we've had it all - the girl who was illegal and let her ex-boyfriend give her baby to his mother, the guy who wanted to know about visas to propose to his girlfriend in NYC and turned out to be a USC, births, deaths, marriages etc.

ri_mischief

Illegal and gave baby to ex boyfriend's mother?????

Must have missed that thread - can you post a link?

chicagojlo

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...ghlight=ayrria

Search for Ayrria to get episode two where the illegal leaves the US and her child behind but it's OK because the grandma promised to bring the kid to visit in the UK...