Immigration Attorneys/E2 Business Agents

[ajay83]

Hi everyone.

Let me introduce myself. My name is Adam. I am currently in my final year at Exeter University (yes one of those bl**dy University Students [}:)]) - I'm quite normal and down to earth really!

Anyway, myself and my fiance want to move to Florida when I have finished University. She is looking to buy a business and obtain an E2 Visa. We are due to married next July, so I would qualify for the husband visa of the E2.

Questions questions! Can anyone recommend E2 Visa Immigration Attorneys. I have been quoted $2,750 from a US Immigration Attorney who seems very clued up but obviously this process is not cheap!

And obviously i am looking for businesses. I have looked at businessesforsale.com but are there any really good places and from peoples experiences are there any peeps i should stay well clear of or any peeps i should definately contact?

I had been looking at a convenience store in Port St Lucie (not technically Orlando i know), but the broker told me today that they hadn't been contacted by the owner after they'd left messages requesting tax returns so suggested i looked elsewhere - which has really annoyed me because it sounded like the perfect business for us - especially as my fiance currently runs a convenience store in Exeter!

Ho hum - sorry for blabbling on - any advice/info/abuse welcome.

Cheers,
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[esprit]

Arrange the company you buy the business through such that she owns 51% and you 49%, she will then get the full E2 visa and you a dependants visa as her spouse and will be able to work once you get EAD ( takes a few months). Get a job using your degree, make yourself indispensable to the employer then beg him to sponsor you for HiB so you can go to green card, not easy as it is a pile of hassle for the employer so bended knee stuff. Hopefully you are doing a degree in something useful so you can get labour certification on it.

Cant do other than recommend the excellent London based Lesley Sillito at www.investorvisausa.com for the visa application. Try the Florida business broker site for businesses, www.fbba,com Plenty of convenience stores around, if you get a vendor who wont play ball, move on.

[ajay83]

Thanks for the reply Julie.

I am doing Computer Science with Internet at University. Any good for labor certification or is everyone an expert in IT in florida?

Re the H1B: I had heard that it is now pretty impossible to get it due to the cap on it. Do I have a better chance in the US getting a H1b if i find an employer willing to sponsor me?

We have friends that are managing directors for a non-profit company across Florida.

I had wanted to get my commericial pilots license in the US and tried to get a job with an airline I don't know if pilots licenses equate to a uni degree or not?

[chrizzy100]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by ajay83
Thanks for the reply Julie.

I am doing Computer Science with Internet at University. Any good for labor certification or is everyone an expert in IT in florida?

Re the H1B: I had heard that it is now pretty impossible to get it due to the cap on it. Do I have a better chance in the US getting a H1b if i find an employer willing to sponsor me?

We have friends that are managing directors for a non-profit company across Florida.

I had wanted to get my commericial pilots license in the US and tried to get a job with an airline I don't know if pilots licenses equate to a uni degree or not?
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A lot of people in IT are still out of work in the USA.....but its getting better.....the thing with FL is that a lot of IT work is top secret.....so you have to be an American to work for a lot of the good large companies that give good rates of pay and benefits.....

[Ray9]

A point you may not realize the cap on H-1B visas does not apply
for for institutions of higher education, nonprofit research groups and governmental research organizations...
Airline pilots are being laid off everyday at this time...Not a good time for them ..

[ajay83]

If I did training for an airline it wouldn't starting for another year and would probably last 2 years, so we're looking at 3 years time.

I was aware that the cap didn't apply for those groups. My friends work for a nonprofit orgainsation called Gulfstream Goodwill - but i'm not aware that it is a research group though.

[esprit]

IT isnt an easy one for labor certification, lots of IT people in the US, not exactly a shortage unless you have really specialist skills. Something medical is good, nurse, phyaio etc. If your wife gets E2 and you work for a while on EAD, you have plenty of time. Cap is 650000 but you have the advantage you are in the counrty and able to work anyway and not waiting about.