Hi guys
All going well, I will have my green card in just a few weeks. Can anyone tell me what I can expect to happen next? What should I be thinking about doing, or doing right now?
Many of you have been there and done it and I could really do with the benefit of your experiences.
Cheers
GARY
Welcome to Britnet, Gary and let's hope that you will come here often!
We're here on an intra-company transfer and don't have Green Cards, but here is a book which I highly recommend (and bought in WH Smiths but you can easily get it via amazon.com....even from the amazon link via this board..it helps to maintain this site!). The book is
"Living and Working in America" by David Hampshire. A mine of information and witty too.
A fun site is also http//www.effingpot.com
There are a couple of Britnetters in the Seattle area, "Was" is certainly one of them and he posts here frequently, plus Melhug in Oregon. Keep checking back here and I'm sure you will make some excellent contacts...and maybe soon even there will be a West Coast get-together! lol
Congratulations Gary! Now the fun starts. Oh and the green card is pink you know! lol
Thanks Dawn and Deborah, I think this is a great website and a good way to meet people you have something in common with when moving to a new country.
So the fun starts now huh?, I don't know whether to be excited or nervous!
Thanks for the info about the book, that looks like essential reading. My head is spinning at the moment with all the things I have to do, and maybe that will help.
Do you guys have any advice on who I should contact here in the UK to inform them that I am emmigrating? I can think of all the usual ones (utilities companies etc, banks credit card companies etc), but are there any others that you can think of?
What do you guys do? How long have you lived in the States?
All these questions as a new member !
Cheers guys
Gary
Gary, the best thing to do, to find out a little more about everyone, is look down at each reply, there's a few icons, the first one is like a monalisa picture portrait. If you click on that, it gives you some details about each member on here (if they've filled in any of the blanks). Where they're from, what they're interested in, and what they do for a living etc.
Speak soon,
Nicky
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Hi Gary, if you go into the Britnet discussion board, you will find we have started to ask you questions about yourself there. You can do the same with us, if you wish smile
Good luck on your move and glad you found this site.
Post office to have your mail forwarded - we didn't need to do this because everything was already going to my parents house and they sifted through it all before sending stuff on to us.
Hi Gary - welcome to a little bit of the UK.
One word of advice - if you do intend moving to Seattle, either start looking for a job now or make sure you can live for about a year without working. The economy in Seattle sucks big time right now - it's always the last part of America to recover from an economic downturn, and the once mighty Boeing is laying people off left right & center.
Hi Gary,
This is a link to an old thread that Monster started. It has lots of useful info although you will find like most threads on here it does wander off subject at various points lol but thats half the fun right?
http//www.british-expats.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=1291&forum=1
You are already one up on me having had the good sense to find BritNet before you got here!