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Can anyone point me in the right direction. How do we go about this? What does it require? How long does it take? Can we come on a working visa for 6 months/year etc
Can anyone point me in the right direction. How do we go about this? What does it require? How long does it take? Can we come on a working visa for 6 months/year etc
I would appreciate you help
You will have to find a company to sponsor you (at a $5,000 cost to them) and apply for the working visa. Do you have a "scarce resource" skill? These visas are incredibly difficult to come by (especially in this economy) unless you can offer some sort of expertise that the company can not find in a US citizen.
Other than that, you can get a job with an American company in Australia, work for a few years and hope for a transfer.
Sorry, but that's really it. Let me know if you have any other questions.
If you're young, it may be worth checking if there is a working holiday agreement with the US. There is one between NZ and the US so I'm assuming there may be an Aussie one too.
Another visa to look at is the E-3, which I think you still need specialist skills for but it is only available to Aussies so could be worth taking a look at. I don't know all the details, I just remember coming across it one day but as I'm a kiwi I'm ineligible anyway so didn't bother looking into the details.
Finally, enter the diversity visa lottery each year and keep your fingers crossed
If you're young, it may be worth checking if there is a working holiday agreement with the US. There is one between NZ and the US so I'm assuming there may be an Aussie one too.
Another visa to look at is the E-3, which I think you still need specialist skills for but it is only available to Aussies so could be worth taking a look at. I don't know all the details, I just remember coming across it one day but as I'm a kiwi I'm ineligible anyway so didn't bother looking into the details.
Finally, enter the diversity visa lottery each year and keep your fingers crossed
good luck.
Hey Thanks - i will look into it all.
I have Science degree with honours in Microbiology, and currently tutor at Uni Science/Medicine as well as teach English as a second language to international students. I wonder if that would be enough.
My husband is a minister so I think he could get a religious worker visa?
Young.......well 36 I reckon is still young its all relative.
Now the lottery - there are so many sites about this. How do you tell if they are legitimate or just scams. Is it right that you pay about $200 and its like a lucky dip???
It would definitely be worth looking into with your degree, I'm afraid I just have no idea at all what the chance are. I think the minimum requirement for the specialist type visas is that the job you are applying to requires a bachelors (i.e. it's not enough just to have the degree, the position must require it). I don't know anything about religious worker visas, but it would be worth checking out too. Might be the most straight forward way to go if it's available.
The diversity visa lottery is a lucky dip, but DO NOT pay anybody any money. Any website asking for payment is a scam. The official lottery is run by the US government so only do it through their official website. Here is a link to some info about it.
You can only enter the lottery from about October to December each year, you just enter online via the official government website. About 10million people enter each year and of that 100,000 names get picked out at random and go through to the next stage. They then start holding interviews for those people starting in october of the following year and keep going until they have either issued 50,000 visas worldwide or it reaches the following October and they start again with the next lottery round.
It is a pretty long shot, but is free to enter so if you want to go to the US, it's worth applying for. Just be prepared for a fairly long process (at least a year, usually more). Also, the number of visas are allocated by region so coming from Australia (the Oceanic region) the odds are a bit higher than many parts of the world. A lot less people from our part of the world enter than say Africa or Asia so the odds go up a little. But don't forget it is still a lottery, so if you can find another way to go to the US, then I would take it
I'm actually going through the diversity visa process myself right now. I'm one of the 100,000 and have my fingers crossed that I will become one of the 50,000 So if you have any questions about it just let know, as for the other types of visas. I really only know bits and pieces that I've picked up by accident while going through the diversity visa process.
I have Science degree with honours in Microbiology, and currently tutor at Uni Science/Medicine as well as teach English as a second language to international students. I wonder if that would be enough.
My husband is a minister so I think he could get a religious worker visa?
Young.......well 36 I reckon is still young its all relative.
Now the lottery - there are so many sites about this. How do you tell if they are legitimate or just scams. Is it right that you pay about $200 and its like a lucky dip???
Have you worked in any other capacity other than a tutor? Your degree is good, but you would need many years working in a specific field - and there must be a shortage of qualified workers in this field in the US. You do not apply for a working visa, the company sponsoring you applies for this. It is extremely expensive for the company to do this, so it's a long shot. 99% of employers in the US will not even look at your resume if you do not already have the right to work in America.
The working holiday visa is only good for one year, and 30 is the age limit.
Your husband may be able to acquire an R1 visa to work as a minister (he must already have a job offer in the US), but I have heard they are really cracking down on these due to abuse of the system. You would not be able to work even if he did manage to enter on this visa.
I have done A LOT of research on this topic, and it is extremely difficult to live legally in the US without employer sponsorship. I would say about 95% of the expats I know are living here by way of internal transfer.
By the way - definitely register in the lottery. You can see the results of the last lottery here: Diversity Visa Lottery 2009 (DV-2009) Results It's a long shot, but you might as well try it!
Let me know if you have any other questions.. I have been through all of this mess. My husband and I finally just gave up and got hitched!
Are you of an ethnic group noted for its backwardness and violence? That would help.
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