Hello everyone, I'm a new member on this forum and it seems like a great place to discuss politics and current conflicts in the world. I live in Ontario (Near the Greater Toronto Area) and I'd love to work and live in the United States because certain states seem like a cheaper place to live compared to most Canadian provinces. For example, my father has a top job in our municipal government, but nearly forty percent of his income is gone to income taxes. Obviously, I don't want to go through that sort of stuff. Property taxes are also high here, and so are taxes on regular buys at stores. However, the plus sides are that we have free healthcare here and post-secondary education is comparably cheaper than education in the United States So what would be the easiest and fastest way to work and live in the United States with a degree earned from a Canadian university? Do companies usually accept international workers and go through the process of giving out work Visas? I've got tons of questions but first I'd just like to know the fastest way to get into America, working as a skilled worker. Thank-you in advance.
With the name Khyber (i.e. Khyber Pass), I assume your primary interests would be flight school or demolition work?
I went the other way, I am an American living in BC and married to a Canadian woman. We wanted to have her immigrate to Idaho, but I was not able to sponsor her. Most places in the States are way cheaper than the Fraser Vally in BC. I am from Boise Idaho and for the most part the cost of living is 50% of what it cost to live in the Lower Mainland. For example a 2lb brick of cheese is $6 in Boise but here the approximately same amount cost $12 in BC. Gas is roughly $5 a gallon here in BC, and $3.50 in Boise. The cost of renting a place is much the same as Boise, but a homes in the Vancouver area costs 300k on the low end and most are like 400k. Boise you can get a very nice house for 100k, or perhaps 150k. The hardest thing for me to get use to here in the Vancouver area is the cost of living... it is just so much higher than in Boise. The 2nd thing is all the darn rain! Boise is high mountain desert with lots of sunny warm days. As for specifics on work visas I really have no knowledge there.
Yes the companies actually prefer to hire international workers because they think American workers feel they are entitled to higher pay. Foreign workers especially from Europe or Canada are highly skilled and when they compare the amount they lose in taxes in their socialized states to what they will make in the US it is a win win for both the company and the potential candidate because they both come out with a better deal when negotiating salaries than when that same company negotiates with an American who is similarly qualified for that position but feels entitled.
I am wondering why this goes on when we have talented people sitting at home looking for work , visa's for others after we put our own back to work
How's your Spanish? I knew this couple that came here from the UK on an E-2 Visa, which allows foreigners to come to the US to live as long as they invest and start a new business in the US. They were here for over 10 years, running a business, hiring American employees, which due to the recession eventually went bankrupt. So what happened? They got kicked out. There are also H1-B Visas, which are for people with highly technical skills that are in short supply, but we limit that to about 85K a year. If your employer doesn't renew, you get kicked out. So unless you are a pop star, your best chance to come here to live is to cross the border illegally,and answer Que? to every question. If you want to come here legally and are not already related to someone here, it's difficult. This country doesn't want either educated people or entrepreneurs. To stay here you have to show a disdain for our laws first.
