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Working in the US

  • 30-04-2007 9:55am
    #1
    bogmanfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭


    Hi. Has anyone here any experience of working in the USA. I went to college there for a while and have always wanted to go back. Now I have a voluntary redundancy offer from my employer here, which would allow me to set myself up nicely abroad. I'm assuming that I would need to be sponsored by a company over there before I go in order to get a work visa. Or can I just go over on a tourist visa, find work and then take if from there? Anyone with experience of this? Do US companies want the hassle of hiring foreigners, or would they rather just hire natives?
    Any info greatly appreciated.


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  • #2
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    You usually can't work on a tourist visa (J1 excepted) and you also can't apply for a visa whilst inside the USA so, if you did come out on hols and find a job, you'd have to fly back to Ireland to do all the visa gumpf and then return to America once you'd got it sorted.

    I can't comment really on how American companies feel about sponsoring visas but I think unless you're some whizz at whatever it is you do they can most likely get someone local to do it. You could always go on a USIT J1 and hope whatever job you get loves you so much they want to keep you? Even then you'd still have to fly home to sort out the paperwork.

    I'm sure people do it!


  • #3
    penexpers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭penexpers


    ellscurr wrote:
    You could always go on a USIT J1 and hope whatever job you get loves you so much they want to keep you?

    You need to be in full time education to get a J1?


  • #4
    pwd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭pwd


    you do need to be in full time education to get a j1, and it might be difficult to get a second one if you have already had one before.


  • #5
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    Agreed.

    If you can wait a couple of years you might be able to get in with an employer here who will transfer you over on a H visa also.


  • #6
    penexpers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭penexpers


    pwd wrote:
    you do need to be in full time education to get a j1, and it might be difficult to get a second one if you have already had one before.

    That's changed now. You can get as many J1's as you please, provided you are in full time education.


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  • #7
    chump
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,807 ✭✭✭chump


    what's the deal with setting up a company over there?


  • #8
    damnyanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭damnyanks


    Have to be a resident I'd imagine. They dont have half baked laws like us :D


  • #9
    pwd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,284 ✭✭✭pwd


    You need to invest a certain amount (quite large for most personal standards) and employ at least 10 americans


  • #10
    bogmanfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,708 ✭✭✭bogmanfan


    Thanks for the replies guys. Basically, myself and girlfriend are seriously thinking of this. We both have college degrees and work in quite a specialised area. There are plenty of jobs in that area in the Chicago area (where we would like to move to.) In addition to this, we both own our own homes in Dublin which we would be renting out. They seem to like this. We would also have access to almost $150,000 between us, thanks to our redundancy money. We're going to NY on holidays in July, so we're going to email some companies in the next few weeks, both in NY and Chicago, and hopefully do some interviews while we're there. One other thing, gf's uncle is a US citizen, and retired member of the US Airforce, living in Long Island. Would having an uncle as US citizen be of benefit, or does it have to be spouse/parent/child?


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