Originally Posted by RICH (Post 10762136)

You sound like a nice bloke though:)

Sorry, that was not helpful. It is easy for some of us to sound smug, having qualified for a visa/residency through some freak circumstance. Lots of people qualify one way or another (per the wiki), but the various circumstances are VERY specific, and most people can't easily make even one of those circumstances happen, without years of effort, or luck, or money, or all 3

Wishing you all the best.

Originally Posted by megalaser (Post 10766795)

To be fair if he were able to get a job with a US company (NOT EASY) then they could sponsor him, it's difficult but not impossible.

Originally Posted by mikelincs (Post 10766804)

Why on earth would any US company spend all that time and money sponsoring an electrician when there are thousand able to take a job at a moments notice. I suspect that given his trade and qualifications, the OP has real;ised that his only realistic chance is to find and marry a US citizen.

Originally Posted by mikelincs (Post 10766804)

Why on earth would any US company spend all that time and money sponsoring an electrician when there are thousand able to take a job at a moments notice. I suspect that given his trade and qualifications, the OP has realised that his only realistic chance is to find and marry a US citizen.

Originally Posted by mikelincs (Post 10766804)

Why on earth would any US company spend all that time and money sponsoring an electrician when there are thousand able to take a job at a moments notice. I suspect that given his trade and qualifications, the OP has realised that his only realistic chance is to find and marry a US citizen.

Originally Posted by megalaser (Post 10766811)

That's why I said it is NOT EASY, he would need to have a friend or someone at a US company that really wants to help him out. It's not IMPOSSIBLE but it's NOT EASY either.

Originally Posted by Ruth16 (Post 10766819)

Is it as easy just to marry a US citizen as it was years ago I wonder ?

Originally Posted by megalaser (Post 10766811)

That's why I said it is NOT EASY, he would need to have a friend or someone at a US company that really wants to help him out. It's not IMPOSSIBLE but it's NOT EASY either.

Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 10766806)

As the electrical system is different, wouldn't he have to requalify anyway?

Originally Posted by Ruth16 (Post 10767227)

I could never understand why its made so hard for Brits to come to the US, everyone else seems to get in so easy, all the Brits I know here are hard working people, never met one that doesn't have a job, I think it's shameful to make it so hard to want to come here and work, language is the same...except us from Yorkshire :)

Originally Posted by Ruth16 (Post 10767227)

I could never understand why its made so hard for Brits to come to the US, everyone else seems to get in so easy ...

Originally Posted by Sally Redux (Post 10767238)

I've met a few Brits who overstayed or had marriages of convenience. I don't see them working any harder than other nationalities.

Originally Posted by Ruth16 (Post 10767258)

I think most of them I met got transferred to jobs in the US, all seem quite well off too living in Ct.