Moving from Europe to the States.. i need your oppinion on this please!

[Skummet]

Thankyou for your reply Zenster…

First off… i am preparing for a culture shock… but im confident it wont be much of a problem for me as usually adapt real easily…
I have lived in Copenhagen… I have lived out in the country… i have lived in a small city… and i have lived in a tiny city… so moving to some place not the size of Copenhagen wont be a problem… but thanx anyways i will definately take it into consideration.

And i am already emailing back and forth with Evilbeth… and she has offered to send me the classifieds for rooms/apartments and jobs… Also i asked her about employment situatio and so on… and ill be sure to take notice of everything she says so im way ahead of you on this one

[StompyGodzilla]

*Originally posted by ruadh *
**Stompy, basically all you’d need to do is bring some forms and documentation to a US consulate in Britain and they’ll issue your husband an immigrant visa; then when he gets to the States he’ll be issued a green card and then he can work under the same conditions as any US citizen.

If you want more detailed info on the procedure let me know, no time at the moment … **

Wow, is it that easy? Many thanks, Ruadh!

My faith in mom and apple pie has been restored.

[C3]

*Originally posted by StompyGodzilla *
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*Originally posted by ruadh *
**Stompy, basically all you’d need to do is bring some forms and documentation to a US consulate in Britain and they’ll issue your husband an immigrant visa; then when he gets to the States he’ll be issued a green card and then he can work under the same conditions as any US citizen.

If you want more detailed info on the procedure let me know, no time at the moment … **

Wow, is it that easy? Many thanks, Ruadh!

My faith in mom and apple pie has been restored. **

I don’t want to discourage you at all or anything, but while the basic steps that ruadh outlined are correct, the process isn’t as easy as it sounds. Be prepared for dealing with the mammoth bureaucracy that is the [scary sounds of evil doom]INS[/scary sounds of evil doom]. My husband and I just went through this whole process (actually, we haven’t gotten the actual greencard yet, but we’re well on our way!! Woohoo!). He’s Australian and came to the U.S. on an H1B. We then married and now we’re trying to get the greencard through marriage. We’re just waiting for our interview now (although he has his Employment Authorization Document), but it’s been a long, frustrating process. Although there are only a few basic steps, you might want to get the advice of a good immigration lawyer in the U.S. There are a million rules and bits of paperwork to fill out, and if you get just one thing wrong, it halts the whole process.

[ruadh]

C3, we’re talking about a different procedure here. Applications filed through a US consulate are processed by the State Department rather than the INS - the exception being the initial I-130, Petition For Alien Relative, but even that will be processed by a Consulate-based INS officer rather than the big bureaucracy back home. After the I-130 is approved, which shouldn’t take more than a couple months (if that), it’s all State Department and should go very smoothly, provided your husband has no horrendous criminal record or contagious diseases.

(NB. I did a lot of work with Consular Processing. Trust me, the State Department has their shit much more together than the INS does.)

Both the US and UK allow dual citizenship, by the way.