Manc

except it isn't a complete and utter shithole.

TexasPenguin

1) Lamps. As someone else has said - change the bulb for a 110V one (assuming this can physically be done - I bought overe a nice uplighter with a halogen bulb that was physically identical to the 110V one in Walmart) and change the plug. Even if the lamp has a fancy dimmer this will almost certainly still work.

2) Why can't the husband "do" ( the work? Who the hell would know who is actually performing the task??? IRS is happy (they still get the tax), wife is happy (she keeps busy and makes some money)???

mandpete

Excuse me there are some very nice areas in the ever expanding Salford.

Manc

The East Lancs Rd outta there being one

Manc

because that would be advocating something illegal.

doc d

and as we've taken nearly 5 pages to get people to realise i'm not after that, we don't want to go back down that road again. do we?

Manc

I was just speaking generally.

threads do tend to go off topic after the third page anyways

snowbunny

If you ask an Internet forum, you must co-exist happily with the culture on that forum, not insist that everyone conform to your etiquette.

Fact is subjective. Even were you to ask an immigration lawyer you MIGHT get an incorrect answer. But you'd get less opinion and more fact. You want the closest thing to fact, ask USCIS or an immigration lawyer. The rules change, and what was okay a couple of years back might not be okay today.

You are insulting some of the most knowledgeable and helpful members of this forum (and I'm NOT including myself here). If you plan to stay around I'd change your attitude.

doc d

no, i'm not. i'm spelling my question out directly and in fairly plain english. if i was getting insulting, i'd have started effing and jeffing a long time ago.

i was asking a fairly simple question. with specific guidelines.
i was trying to keep it on track.
if that's insulting, sweetheart, then it must be awful everytime you use an automated telephone menu.

Englishmum

Straight from "the horse's mouth" ie. the US Embassy in London:

scroll down to the bottom of the page to see what it says about *Working* on an H-4 Visa:

http://www.usembassy.org.uk/cons_new/visa/niv/work.html

Manc

yeah but can anyone give him a more specific answer than that?
does anyone have more experience of H4 visa's than the US Embassy?

snowbunny

Condoleeza Rice?

OP, if you worked on an L-1 visa, my reading is that your wife might be able to work on an L-2 visa. However, I don't know if your employer could sponsor you on an L-1 -- only you do.

And you probably knew that anyway.

Englishmum

No of course not....but that's what 'Doc' doesn't want to hear is it?

For what it's worth Doc, my husband has an L1-A visa. I have an L2 and so does our 16 year old son. I am allowed to work in the US - my husband's company even arranged for me to get work authorisation, and I was fortunate to then be entitled (purely because of having an EAD) to have a Social Security number.

On the other hand, our 16 year old son's friends will all be working over the school Summer holidays which begin on Friday here. My son *can't* work because his visa doesn't entitle him to (and the company's visa attorneys - Fragomen - who are very well known around the world - checked for us). We won't even consider him doing a cash job....it's not worth the risk and my husband's employers would not be happy if anyone in our family is breaking US visa laws.

Your wife will either need her own 'H' or 'L' visa allowing her to work in her own right, or you will have to have an 'L' visa yourself then she can apply for EAD on her L2 (but can only apply after she has relocated to the US)

doc d

thanks!
i don't want to break laws either and i'm not asking for peoples interpretations or feelings on what they think visa laws will be in my situation, nor am i asking for opinions on what people think of my situation or what i'm "planning" to do. i'm asking for experiences of trying to solve a specific question. so far i've had three or four good answers; the rest has been opinion elevated to fact, opinion on my personal situation and whether or not trafford is part of manchester. it is. part of greater manchester. but not manchester city.

NJ_Dave

Your wife can't work, or do anything that resembles work, while on an H4. No matter how much you want people to sugar-coat their answers, the plain fact is that she can't work.

Good luck with getting your lamp to work.....