Moving to the US to work

Potatoe Eater

Hi,

I am qualified engineer and I would like to move to say New York for 1-3 years to see how things go. Obviously I want to obtain a visa beforehand. Does anyone know how easy or hard it might be to get a visa for the states and where should one start. I don't want to pump much money into it unless I think I stand a good chance. Any advice is appreciated.

silja

If you have a US company to be your sponsor, then getting a work visa is easy right now, as there are more visas available than taking thgem up. Getting the US sponsoris the difficult part.

There are no "get a work visa, then go over to look for a job" visas.

ibh

silja wrote: »

There are no "get a work visa, then go over to look for a job" visas.

I don't know the details of it, but i thought there was one visa that allowed you to do this IF you have recently graduated from college.

I know it may not suit everyone but could be an option. For example, if I wanted to get to the US it would be better for me to do a 1 yr masters and just get this visa rather than go into lottery of getting a green card.

silja

You are correct; if you are a student or within one year of graduating, there is the J1 one year intern visa.

greenbrain

Go4less are the only ones who do the one where you don't have to have a prearranged job!!

http://www.go4less.ie/j1/usa-visas-application.asp

murm57

USIT do it too http://www.usavisa.ie/12-month-usa-work-programme/

Corrimbla

The Irish Immigration center in Boston is by far the best - cheapest, very helpful and you book your own flights!

http://www.iicenter.org/services/J1.htm