US VISAS ?
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- ChankDiesel
Has anyone ever applied for a US employment visa ?. Were you successful ? or not ?. If so what visa did you work under ? do they accept a "webdesigner" as a skilled profession ?. I'd love to hear your comments!
- unfittoprint0
say that you have a Phd in webdesign by Kabul's University of Arts and they'll surely give you a VISA. a permanet one.
- Bluejam0
I've got an L1 visa, the process was fairly straight forward from my point view (the company i work with sorted it out). It costs a couple of thousand dollars and you need a degree.
It could be harder to get a visa these days as it's now more difficult for companies to warrant employing a non US citizen when people are being laid off left , right and center...
...otherwise find a rich American girl. I have and that's my back up plan. ;-)
- shellie0
blue i had no idea you were in the US
- Bluejam0
Chi-Car-Go
Bloody love it.
- shellie0
How long have you been here? 4 day week this week. woo. 4th of july. outstanding! we dont have enough holidays.
- unfittoprint0
A friend of mine is teaching architecture in Pennsylvania, but went there before 9/11. He says that the system is more restrictive now, regarding the handing of visas, even for EU residents.
- shellie0
the comapny my boyfriend works for has an unusual amount of forgieners working there. Mostly because the owner himself came from russia and he has a soft spot in his heart for euros and eurasians. He said that now its become very hard for them to bring over programmers (he works in video games). And, the company basically has to go through all this garble proving they cant find any US citizen to fill that position. It's pretty lame. Why cant they just hire the best person for the job no matter where they're from. Keep us americans on our toes. :)
- Mimio0
Shellie, that's a good idea, but other nations don't reciprocate. This way the US is still competitive and remains an open society made of it's own axpayers. Why should the US subsidize others nations profit building? especially when they usually aren't even open economies.
- shellie0
am i wrong or do people living and working here still have to pay taxes? i was under the impression that they did.
seems weird to me though that its even hard for your neighbor canadians cant get work visas here.. where there are so many americans that work there. many just drive across the border to work.
dont listne to me though. i have no clue what im talking about.
- unfittoprint0
'but other nations don't reciprocate.'
'Why should the US subsidize others nations profit building?'
WTF?
- Mal0
I've got a green card woohoo.
- intoxicated0
Here's my advice, it's shameful as hell, but in my experience the only guaranteed way of getting a work visa/green card.
Goto to Vegas on holiday, with a visa or visa waiver (3 months), miss your return flight and overstay your visa. Find a nice stripper girl (one who wants to break into the whole internet porn thing), tell her that you'll sort her out with a nice website if she'll take you down the "wee wedding chapel of vegas", get a lawyer, pay $1600 bucks, and in 3-6 months bingo!Your sorted.
- shellie0
is that what you did? :)
- Mimio0
Students and workers with L-1 work visas don't pay taxes here. It's basically a nefarious scheme to undercut our labor market.
- robert0
Why should we give away our jobs to Euro trash? *cough* webdesigner *cough*
We got enough kids worrying about thier future to give hand outs to all of europe and asia.
It's near impossible for a US citizen to get a work visa in any other country, I feel it should be the same for you fuckers to come into my country and take my co-American's income.
America has changed! Live with that fact.
My 2 cents
- jevad0
fucking hell....i don't even want to get into this...but to cut a long story short - the company i was going to be working for in boston 3 years ago got so fucked off with all the bullshit they had to deal with from the fucking us gvt about employing me that they withdrew the job offer.
but hey - i'm marrying an fbi agent in 3 weeks so green card here i come!
- Bluejam0
"workers with L-1 work visas don't pay taxes here."
I pay taxes.
I have an L1 work visa.
- jevad0
great attitude robert
*sigh*
"america has changed" - damn right - for the worst.
- monokrom0
With so many people out of work in the United States, the idea that there's no one in the labor pool with the skills required to fill 99.9999% of the small number of open positions out there, warranting the importation of someone from outside the country is preposterous.
When this country climbs out of its economic death spiral, however, by all means, bring your asses here.
- Mal0
Have we forgot that all americans were at one point immigrants.