31 year old British female wanting to work in America?
Any info would be really appreciated! Thanks
Answer:
Hi Sonia C
The green card working visa takes too long to apply, about a year, they only issue so many and then you have to apply again the next year, A student Visa may be the way to go. You can always go for a 3 month visit on a Tourist I94 Visa Waiver.
What I would do is visit for 3 months and decide if you really want to live here and which state, make contacts, friends, network to get some idea of a career path.
Go back home and apply for either a Student Visa to progress with your career path or Business Visa to open up a Business ($50K required in a US bank account) Some professions (doctors, Nurses, Scientists, Engineers etc) are needed here so you can apply for a working Visa if you are in a Needed Profession. The working visa process takes a long time at least 6 months to 1 1/2 years, so be prepared to wait. (they only allow so many per year)
Another alternative that has worked for some people that I know is to meet someone, marry them, live together for 2 years and prove it with joint bills, banks, rent, tv, gas, water ,electric etc and apply for a spousal Visa. If you can't find someone, there are people that will be in your circle of friends network that will know someone that will marry you for a fee, usually $5000. pay half to start the process and the rest after the final interview where you have to satisfy immigration that you really are man and wife and have been living together for 2 years.
That may sound drastic to some but if you are a normal person with no special skills, they won't give you a working visa/ green card for any long period of time. If you really love the USA and want to stay you will do almost anything to reside here.
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Hope this helps. Good Luck
if you have any sort of criminal record youre stuffed
apply for a green card or go to an American diplomatic mission for search.
Have a look on this website and good luck!!
http://www.unitedstatesvisas.gov/index.h...
Normally you have to either get an unskilled labour short term working VISA, or a skilled Professional Visa.
The skilled professional is out unless you have skills and experience that are in short supply in the US.
So it's going to be bar work, or helping out in childrens activity camps perhaps.
The best option is if your employer can offer you a position in the US.
HTH
Philip
From the details you have given, my suggestion would be does your current employer have any contacts in law firms in the States? To be sponsored by an American firm would be one way. Other than that I think it would be difficult.
Explore the possibility of sponsorship.
I sort of looked in to it several years ago and apparantly you need to have a job lined up and a sponsor, and of course a very clean record. You also need a green card. I met a girl who had everything lined up, even a green card and they then said no a week before she was due to leave. I should imagine it's even harder since 9/11, but good luck.
There is no age limit to apply for an American work visa. However, in order to apply for a student visa (J1) or a work visa (H1B), you require a sponsor-in other words, a job. The company (possibly via your own lawyer) will then petition for a visa on your behalf-although the visa will only be valid for this one particular job, and if you wish to switch employers, you will have to reapply for the visa. And technically, the company must prove that no American is capable of doing the job. The other possibility is the Green Card Lottery, although the UK did not have an allocation last year. This years allocations will be announced in Spetember, but this will be for entry into the States in 2009.
http://www.green-card-lottery.org/requir...
The US Immigration page might be of some value as well
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis...
I'm afraid I can't help you on the legal secretary aspects at all, as I was working in the US as a medical researcher.
Good luck!
Qualifications would depend on the particular State. Your best bet might be to check out multinationals here for a placement.
I would talk to someone at the Us embassy in England before you make any plans. I know England is tuff for Americans to get a work permit. My sister moved to Londaon 25 years ago and married a Brit and still waited more than 6 months for a work permit. She got a job at ABC News London as a sectetary. My other sister was a legal secretary in Los Angeles, she made good money but still had a hard time with high rent ect.You don't need legal qualifications as far as I know, just alot of patience with the lawyers out here. Good luck...
I am a paralegal and can tell you that salaries in this field pay about half what they did 15 years ago.
first you need to find a job, then you need to apply for H1 visa (work visa), then after few years you can apply for Permanent Residency. I think with a good appearance and your British accent you can find work easily. good luck
You are unlikely to get a work visa. You would require special skills that are in short supply. Because your skills are country-specific, you are going to have a problem.
You need a job offer before applying for the visa.
If you do get a job offer, and the employer can show they cannot find a suitable American to fill the position, your age would not be a bar to your employment.
Once you have a work visa, you could typically stay up to 10 years by renewing the visa; during that time, you would need to work toward obtaining a green card - your employer would be able to assist.
I flew a woman I knew from Warwick,Warwickshire over here for 3 months 2years ago, but she had no visa just a passport..but this only allowed her to stay 3 months..i don't know about a cutoff age or anything,or if the law has changed, but she simply had to show her passport and sign A waiver at the airport...Now i do know it would be at your benefit if you already had a job reference here prior to applying for one, an address etc.Coming for 3 months as a visitor may work out, and go to work here during that time to develop a work contact..and thus creating a reference to apply later for the work visa.I also understand that it is a much faster process if you file for it over here fro me and my friend checked on it..in which she did get..She had to go back to the UK after the 3 month period, but the paper work was filled out here, and was electronically transfered to the Uk and was awaiting for her to go through the other motions...I own A small painting incorporation..maybe I could use a good secretary :)...It may also be woth looking into how to become A paralegal in the usa...here is some info on how to become one..You can do so without years of law school, but would look great on a application for A work visa, if you showed proof that you were truly interested in this field..
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