Work as on a Foreign Exchange Visa
You can go on an Exchange Visa to work for up to a year in a variety of activities, including as an intern, trainee, specialist, physician, teacher, reasearcher, even camp counsellor or au pair. Your US sponsor will need to be registered as an exchange sponsor first.
These are the general options for moving to the US to live, work, invest, study or just visit.
See if you might qualify by reading this page and then, if you do, book an appointment to speak to us.
We can assess you, fine-tune your qualification and handle everything until you're successfully in the US.
- Do you have family in the USA?
- Do you have an advanced degree and specialist skills?
- Does your non-US employer want to transfer you to the US to work for their US office?
- Do you or your non-US company conduct 50% or more of your trade with the US?
- Do you have in excess of $100,000 available to invest in a US business?
- Have you been accepted on a US study course?
Summary
If any of these options sounds like it could be you, feel free to book an appointent and come and talk to us.
We can see if it can work for you.
Trade with the US
If you or your non-US company conducts over 50% of your trade with the US, you can go to the US as a Treaty Trader to work and take control of that US business.
Visit the US
And, of course, you can just go to make a business visit or just have fun or pass through the US to a different destination
If your answer is “Yes” to any of these questions, you may be able to move to the US on a temporary or permanent basis in one of the following categories.
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Family in the US
If you have direct relatives already living in the US as US Citizens or US green card holders, you can probably get a green card. Relevant family members include spouses, fiance(e)s, parents, children and siblings.
They all have different processing times, depending on how immediate they are as family members but a green card is possible
Study in the US
You can go and study for academic, vocational or exchange purposes and usually work on or off campus part-time during term time and full-time outside term time. You can also undertake Optional Practical Training and get paid work experience in your chosen field
US Job Offer
If you have a job offer from a US employer, you can go on a variety of visas. Some of them take a fair while because you have to prove that a local worker is not available for the job and some are much faster.
You can also go for up to a year on contract and work full time or go for up to 6 months and do limited work activities.
Please note that Migration USA does not engage in finding jobs. Please do not ask us about that.
Advanced Degree and Specialist Skills
If you have an advanced degree along with extensive skills and experience in an area that might not have enough US workers, you can go on a special green card and you don’t ever need to find an employer.
Company Transfer
Your non-US company can transfer you to the US branch of their company to work as a senior employee or specialist. You can even be sent to start a new branch for your employer.
Investment
You can go to invest over $100k in a new business or an existing business and work with those businesses. You can also invest between £1m and $1.8m in anything you like and you won’t have to work in the enterprise
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Self-Assessment
Use this page to give yourself a general idea of whether you might qualify for a US Visa or Green Card.
Or use our Self-Assessment Tool.
If you don't qualify or don't want our professional assistance or just want to chat about a US Immigration issue, a free appointment is not possible.
Please visit our premium appointment booking page and set up a paid meeting* at your convenience.
* If you subsequently ask us to make an application for you, we will deduct this fee from your case fee.
If you believe that do qualify, return to the free appointment booking page and set up a meeting at your convenience.
