Arrgrggghhhhh! My last day in the UK!

As some may remember, I'm moving to the US. Well, the time has arrived - my flight is tomorrow. To say I'm apprehensive would be a convenient way to avoid swearing.

Leaving do was Wednesday - got some good memories from that. My colleagues arranged for me to have a little dance/show with some scantily clad young lovelies - marvelous! Though I'm worried about the future blackmail potential of the photos...

 

make sure you take some ky jelly for the cavity search when you get to us imigration. they also need to implant a little chip and some semtex in your head so they can tell what you're thinking and blow you up if it is vaguely anti american.
seriously though if it's what you want to do then just enjoy yourself. the states wasn;t for me but i have 3 or 4 mates who went over there, have stayed and are loving it. best of luck...
cheers


julian

 

all the best stumblin...! will you still be frequenting these forums when you arrive there..?

until later

 

A giant leap for stumblinkind Good luck

 

All the best .
Just think of all that cheap hi_fi out there .

 

ATB Stumblin

Hope you can still pop on here.

:beer:

 

Not to mention cheap cars, cheap petrol, cheap bikes, cheap food, cheap clothes, cheap electronics, cheap CDs

You'll love it!

 

My "last day" in the UK was in March 1988 or thereabouts. Haven't looked back since

 

Good luck sir - rest assured, your NAD will be staying on these shores for the forseeable future, so there'll be something here to remember you by

 

Good luck, hope it all works out for you.
I had intended leaving the UK permanently a few years ago to live in the Midle East with my family. Unfortunately my missus just couldn't get a job, ( she had just qualified as a registered Midwife ) despite all her efforts, so after 3.5 years i came back home.
No worries though. I managed to get myself the best job i've ever had in my life 4 years ago, and didn't even have to move house.

Be lucky and enjoy. Nice to see people get on their bike and give it a go, live the dream man.

 

I'm glad he only sold you the one or that could have been a very worrying statement

 

Thanks for all your kind words. This message coming to you from my new office in Ca. Walls and a door - bliss! At last I have escaped the cube farm!

I'm sure I still find the time to frequent the forum, though maybe not so often.

 

if you have walls and a door you'll be on the forum more than ever after a month - either that of filling your hard drive with donkey porn.
cheers


julian

 

As it happens I'm sitting in a nice window office in New York at the moment. Only here for the week though

Michael.

 

I've got a rather nice view of San Francisco bay. :boogie:

 

It looks like Tellytubby land outside my window (if you ignore the stupid_metal_tin_boxes_on_wheels park

 

hope you enjoy it over there.

just out of interest, how does one move over there? (with regards to working permit and length allowed over there)

 

Oh yeah - oops, meant to say that I hope it all goes OK - good one!

Don't vote for Bush though

 

First of all it's easiest if you have sponsorship from a company with a blanket visa approval (though I'm not quite sure how that made life easier). It will help if you have more than 2 years with them and a degree. Then you get your petition raised by a lawyer and apply at the consulate. It took about 3 months from the time I got the offer, but that was mostly internal wranglings with Oracle and the blood suckers, I mean lawyers.

Once I had appeared at the consulate it took about 3 working days to get my visa. I think this is mostly due to the excellent preparation and presentation of my visa package by the blood suckers.

I'm on an executive visa, which is valid for 3 years and can be extended to 7. There other types like the H visa which for people with specialist knowledge and skills. I'm not sure what the crack with that one is though.

 

If you have a company sponsoring you and you have a degree or 9 years relevant experience in the field you're going to be working in then an H visa shouldn't be a problem. They're usually valid for 3-5 years and are infinitely extendable. The H1 is the standard working visa. When I worked in the US for a year I wasn't eligble for an H1 visa so I got a J1 visa which is supposedly for people undertaking training whilst working in the US. J1 visas are for 12 months and extendable only for an extra 6 months. That was 10 years ago though so things might have changed. Like stumblin, I was going with a company and their lawyers oiled the wheels of bureaucracy making it a pretty painless process.

Beyond that there are several other classes of visa for sports people, journalists, people with specialist skills etc. Check the US Embassy website for details.

Michael.