Possible / Cost to get USA immigrant VISA?

jammin_2

bobwilson wrote: »

ok thanks, so all I need to do is have surgery to implant a foetus inside me, have female hormone treatment, fly to america on holiday and give birth on american soil. Then am I entitled to live in usa?

Job's a good 'un.

matt9b

jammin wrote: »

Job's a good 'un.

He said self-employed. read. READ. READ !

So your advice is to give birth, which was funny at first, but now your advice is to get a job? Bob, ignore this person please. :wall:

alanrowell

bobwilson wrote: »

ok thanks, so all I need to do is have surgery to implant a foetus inside me, have female hormone treatment, fly to america on holiday and give birth on american soil. Then am I entitled to live in usa?

No, the child would be allowed to live there as an American citizen but you don't get the right to live in the US

jammin_2

alanrowell wrote: »

No, the child would be allowed to live there as an American citizen but you don't get the right to live in the US

Drat. I thought legislation provided for the parents of a US national child to reside in the US with the child?

moonrakerz

If you were likely to give birth in the USA, you wouldn't get travel insurance !!!!:rotfl::rotfl:

ferf1223

hartcjhart wrote: »

IIRC there was an agreement just after the ww2 that we/they could travel to and work in the countries without restriction,however as always we honour it and the yanks dont

Interesting...odd that my first (fiancee) visa indicated I had no right to work here, then.

ho hum.

Eton_Rifle

matt9b wrote: »

He said self-employed. read. READ. READ !

So your advice is to give birth, which was funny at first, but now your advice is to get a job? Bob, ignore this person please. :wall:

It was a joke!

The phrase Jammin used, "Job's a good 'un", is a colloquial way of saying something like "That's the way to do it!", "Bob's your uncle".
That sort of thing.

p.s. I work freelance in the US but I got in on my Japanese wife's L1 working visa (I have an L2) so I can't help you much.

alanrowell

Can you get an Irish passport (born to Irish people, born in ANY part of Ireland)? If so you can apply for the Diversity Lottery as apparently there aren't enough Irish folk in the US

Failing that find some American Gal and marry her - they really like our accents

bobwilson

alanrowell wrote: »

Can you get an Irish passport (born to Irish people, born in ANY part of Ireland)? If so you can apply for the Diversity Lottery as apparently there aren't enough Irish folk in the US

Never thought I'd hear myself say this but unfortunately, there's no irish blood in me lol

alanrowell wrote: »

Failing that find some American Gal and marry her - they really like our accents

ROFL :rotfl: this made me laugh will our accents get us a better looking girls than over here?

If you ever got an american girl, you'd probably want to bring up kids in the UK rather than the US anyway! Would have to be a pretty quick dating process, since british can only visit USA for up to 3 months on holiday!

But being serious now, that raises another question, from what I've read above, even poor british sods with a US wife can't live / work there if they're self employed?! So they're eternally b*ggered?

neilbond007

I came in on an L1 Visa just over 2 years ago.

I'm now with a South African who became a US citizen last year. We're having our first baby in about 6 hours time. Looks like I'll be here for a while