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Advice on how to move to the United States

  • 17-07-2018 03:46PM
    #1
    GillC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭


    Im looking for someone to give me advice on how to move over to the United States Im 24 origanally from Ireland. I am currently Living in Australia but want to move closer to home and also would love to give the states a try. I work Full time as a Personal Trainer and have a good few qualifications in health and fitness im also a soccer coach and have played at a well respected level I don't know if this will help me or not but would love to work in the sports and fitness industry over there ! Any advice on what route I should go down with visas and job oppurtunies would be great . Thank you


Comments

  • #2
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,806 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    Find a company that is willing to sponsor you for a H1B visa, very difficult in this day and age.

    Win the Green Card lottery (DV) instructions on the sticky hhere., Low chance of winning but free and easy to enter.

    Marry a US citizen.


  • #3
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,698 ✭✭✭tricky D


    O-1A: individuals with an extraordinary ability in the sciences, education, business, or athletics

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_visa


  • #4
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,256 ✭✭✭✭cena


    tricky D wrote: »
    O-1A: individuals with an extraordinary ability in the sciences, education, business, or athletics

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_visa

    I would say the states have so many personal trainers, they may not see it as an extraordinary ability


  • #5
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,698 ✭✭✭tricky D


    It's for the soccer coaching bit which is probably still lacking.


  • #6
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,256 ✭✭✭✭cena


    tricky D wrote: »
    It's for the soccer coaching bit which is probably still lacking.

    I'm a USA qualified ice hockey and I can't get a visa for the states


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  • #7
    dennyk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭dennyk


    O-1A is for extraordinary talented people. If you were a head coach for a top-tier national football team and an MLS team somehow managed to scrape together enough lost change from under their home stadium bleachers to afford to recruit you, maybe that'd give you a shot at one. Assistant coach at Cavan Town FC, not so much, though.


  • #8
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,396 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    tricky D wrote: »
    O-1A: individuals with an extraordinary ability in the sciences, education, business, or athletics

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_visa
    Not a single hope.


  • #9
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    I know a couple of people on O-1A visas and they are far from exceptional, they just needed a creative immigration lawyer :pac:

    Basically they missed out on the H1-B lottery but they still had good jobs lined up and companies willing to sponsor them as O1-A visas. The legal route is so messed up you end up with situations like this. The H1-B route needs to be fixed, too much fraud applications and not enough visas makes it very difficult for highly educated to get jobs in the US.


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