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Advice about leaving home country forever
MoSiAc
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It's really just something I'm curious about more than really going to do, though if the proper opportunity arrived I wouldn't really mind it considering where I live and what I think I want.
Just wondering if anyone has moved say from the States to England without being married to someone from that country. I know it's a hard process no matter how it's done but I'm curious as to how hard.
Anyone have any advice as to what job sets are more "global" and could allow more for a move of such a nature. I have language skills and I'm told that helps.
I also figure that maybe there isn't much of this currently because the economy isn't all that great for business and there isn't as much a reason to 'move' personnel when you could just hire someone there that can probably do the job.
Just wondering if anyone has moved say from the States to England without being married to someone from that country. I know it's a hard process no matter how it's done but I'm curious as to how hard.
Anyone have any advice as to what job sets are more "global" and could allow more for a move of such a nature. I have language skills and I'm told that helps.
I also figure that maybe there isn't much of this currently because the economy isn't all that great for business and there isn't as much a reason to 'move' personnel when you could just hire someone there that can probably do the job.
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Also - why permanently? It's pretty easy just to go visit, even for extended times.
England has had some really weird political stuff happen in the last 5 years, so I imagine it would be even harder to move there nowadays, especially permanently. For most situations, you would need to be there on a visa and then apply for citizenship. I don't know why you'd want to move to England (as mentioned above, it's become politically very weird lately), although Britain overall isn't as crazy as England. It might be easier to look into Scotland, for example.
I know when the EU formed a lot of people who had Irish grandparents applied for Irish citizenship, as that would get you into the EU overall. But yeah, the opportunity in your case would be "I have a job that is in demand in another country, and would like to live there permanently." Then you apply for the job and see what the specific deal is for that country. It's somewhat moot to go into details without a target country.
I wouldn't mind being able to do this in the states. Say work for a company for a couple years in a country side state, and then move into the big city for a year or two and enjoy the new scenery and yet still be doing something I know.
Of course I can only speak from my personal experience, which is in the power industry. OEM companies like GE, Siemens, and Mitsubishi always need engineers. Power generation companies like the folks who sell you electricity always need engineers AND skilled laborers. These companies are global and they hire US citizens to go work in places like China, Saudi Arabia, Spain, France, Germany, Denmark, the UK, and all sorts of places I haven't listed. For a quick example go to GE's site and search their careers page for "engineer"; half or more will be in foreign locations.
As for engineering, any discipline that isn't industrial (imaginary) is gold. You can work absolutely anywhere with an accredited engineering degree and a little experience. It might take you 1-2 years working in the US to become skilled enough to be wanted overseas, but I've seen green (brand new) engineers go straight from college to skipping town for overseas training. Having language skills on top of that is huge (especially if it's mandarin, but others are +++ as well). After seeing your recent post, you can also work as a "field engineer" which means you travel 80-100% of the time, going to new locations around the US every few months, on company dime of course.
Alternatively, trade skills are also very profitable. Welders, millwrights, technicians are in high demand in the US (not so sure about global relocating, as companies can hire these from local). Unfortunately I don't really know how to get started with those because I'm an engineer. I can at least say go search job sites for things like "wind technician", usually level 3 denotes brand new, no experience. I'm not so sure on global relocation with just trade-skill experience, so you'd have to put some research into that if you are actually interested.
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I dunno where you're located exactly but I had a friend from Ireland that wanted to come visit the states for a few months and some how worked out a work co-op with subway and got to stay in California for a few months. I don't think he said there was any student thing but there may have been. I just thought it was wild he got to come visit for a few months and had a job lined up for him.
Honestly, even moving a substantial distance within your own country is difficult if you don't have a job lined up.
After some google work I did find http://www.wikihow.com/Move-to-England which has some sites about working abroad and moving. There's a link to a forum for american ex pats but you have to pay to see anything of use, which is sort of a downer.
In Japan it was different. I spoke English which opened up a surprisingly wide variety of jobs. I could easily go back there, but I'd like to try somewhere different England was just the country that popped into my mind because I have friends there that would help me get adjusted, etc.
As far as skills go having a degree is a good starting point for applying to jobs that would make Immigration happy bunnies though having a job lined up is obviously even better. Obviously 2+years experience is also a good thing for any industry you want to go into. Do you have any family connections to the UK? Language skills are nice especially if you want to work in general business with links to Europe but you know we speak the same language right?
This is all mainly curiosity right now though but I am happy to see people's points of view on the idea.
I believe the government has introduced a points based system for immigration similar to the Australians. Arbitary number example: Speak english +10, degree +8, doctor +6 etc.
It's Japanese, which I know doesn't apply to England. Back in college though many professors told me "having a foreign language makes you look better to any employer because it shows how versatile you are"
I speak 4-5 languages somewhat fluently, and for the most part, it doesn't make me more attractive to an employer. You have to have the specific skill set they require before things like languages have any effect on the hiring process. Of course, if the skill set they're looking for is "Speak fluent Japanese" then that's another matter entirely.