British Expatriate Network

Hi

I have been looking into US immigration for some time now. I am a British Citizen looking to move stateside. I have a degree in Archaeology and MA in Landscape Archaeology. At present I am trying to convince myslef to stay here for a bit to get my PhD but, to be honest, I am definately ready to leave, lol.

I was wondering if anyone had any advice or contacts in terms of work or otherwise. If I am going to work in the states on a perminant basis I am going to need an H1B Visa. That said i would also be happy to work on a temporary basis until something else came up. If I am coming in on the basis I have a specific skill to offer it would probably be geophysics and land surveying.

I am also considering a PhD as a viable option. I have also looked into a PhD as a possible, but am finding the US system not that easy to naviagte around. I am aware, however, that they act as your immigration officer.

Any advice gratefully received

Adam

HI Adam
I have no idea but welcome anyway.

You need to land the job first, then let them worry about the visa. It's tough, though, there's not many of them. H1b is not a permanent visa, by the way.

I'd go the PhD route, then try to land a job here. With no PhD and no real work experience, you are unlikely to persuade the immigration authorities that you have a specialist skill that a US national does not have.

It's very hard to emmigrate here. Sorry to be such a downer.

Welcome to Britnet, though.

unless of course your Mexican? then it's a doddle!
As has been said, the best way would be to find a sponsoring job here, and come in that way.

You might want to look at coming to work for a major university... also going the schoolteacher route as well might get you in.

Dunno about the rest of the US, but Nevada and Alaska are seriously short of teachers.

You need to offer them something they haven't got. So if you have any speciality that hasn't made it here you can practically guarantee a job, but then, as we did, have to face the uncertainty of having your job advertised once a month. mind his nibs is in software programming and it took nearly seven years for folks to do his job, by which time we had the green card application in, a democratic president and a company who really wanted him. best of luck in your venture, it is difficult, I believe some of the Indian doctors here have the worst time, they come from a country providing many well qualified people and have a queue a mile long to stay here. I believe one of them coined the phrase, the harrowing of legal immigration, and that's exactly what it is. But, it is worth it.

You could try pushing the European History and Land Archeology would be useful with a lot of the Native American / Pre-Colombian historical stuff.

/not quite sure how educational visa stuff here works
//anyone else know about this stuff?