View Full Version : want to move to America will LD nursing help
bethany0818
17-03-2005, 12:32
i am interested in setting up a buisness in Orlando, I am currently doing my nurse training in learning disabilities, will this get me to America with a green card. I know that nursing is needed out there but i don't think learning disability nursing is recognised. Should i apply for an E2 visa and then look to buying a buisness.
You will need to find a business before you apply for the visa ..
Are you married, if so fins a business, get your husband to apply for an E2, get your work permit as an E2 dependant and then you can work as what you want. They are looking for generalist nurses for the green card route and it is currently taking more than two years.
bethany0818
25-03-2005, 01:17
Yes we are married and have a daughter aged 19 months. We are thinking about moving to Florida on an E2 and getting a business. Does anyone know if Learning disability nursing could lead to a green card. I have heard that it would be a skill that they would require and that i would be sought after. I don't want to spend the next two years studying hard, if it would not lead to a green card. I would rather focus the time and effort in to my own business out there. I know an E2 doesn't qualify for a green card, but we do plan to have more children so could they get us a green card?
First check that they will accept a UK qualification over here without any retraining. Ordinary general nurses have to do the American nursing exam. Nurses can apply straight for green card without the need for labour certification, not sure if that applies to your branch, if not your employer would need to apply for labour certification but should be OK if there is a skills shortage. Having more kids is of limited help. They can sponsor you but not till they are 21.
chrizzy100
25-03-2005, 17:29
My friend was a child nurse in the UK.......and she is having to take nursing all over again in the USA ....she was told if she had been a general nurse...that would of helped.....but she had only taken exams to do with kids....she could get no work on the Cape or in Boston after she got her work permit in anything other than general caring for kids on a very low wage....
bethany0818
28-03-2005, 23:06
When we have sold up we will be looking at bringing about $220K to $250 What kind of business do you recommend to buy. We have been looking at salons. How much do people spend on average to get an E2 visa. What sort of profits are we looking at to qualify for a visa every five years.
Thanks for all advice!!
look up businesses for sale in Florida, there are loads listed, do some research and take your pick, good luck (try looking on google)
andy and ann hales
29-03-2005, 02:48
Take a look at a book called Nursing in America by Eugenie Houston
www.nurseatwork.com
log into the above webb site for more info
E2, investment must be substantial, seen as around $100,000 mark, though $150,000 is safer, $60,000 owner draw, one US employee preferred. If you are a nurse, have you looked at a day care or an assisted living facility??
bethany0818
29-03-2005, 16:06
Well it sounds like we have the capital to put down. I am currently undertaking my learning disability training. I started in January 05 finish in 08. I am seriously thinking of not persuing this career as our plans are to move to America, and this qualification is not recognised. Don't want to waste three years of hard slog, if i can not practice out there and also be recognised as a professional. I think we will invest in a business and try to do it through the E2 route.
I know this is very stressfull, having to re apply every five years for your visa. We have family out there doing just that. Can you apply for a green card if you expand your business out there? We would also get a broker to find a well established business, stll probably very stressfull, but i suppose you would have to come back to England and start again. We are both young enough to give it a good go i think.
Just another quick question, My husband and i were wondering if you just automatically think in dollars or do you convert it back in to pounds sterling when you live out there. We were thinking it would be hard to think in dollars at first!!
Hi Claire..it's me ! On your question about thinking in dollars, to begin with you convert everything back to pounds, then you get to the point where you think just in Dollars. when I went back to England last time and was shopping, I found myself converting the price in pounds back to dollars !
chrizzy100
29-03-2005, 22:46
You have to think in $$$ if you are paid in $$$......we look on a $ being a pound...things don't look so cheap that way.....but it is the best way.....
I would agree Chrizzy, we think in dollars because we earn dollars. And we think of a dollar as a pound.
Building the business up big enough to get a green card? No there is no direct route. If you are doing something specialist where there is a shortage, you can try the labour certification route and convert to a work based visa, or you could sell a big business and invest $500,000 in a business in an area of low employment ot $1 million elsewhere and try and get an EB5 that leads to green card, though that is also a hard route. Or a spouse could go in as dependant, apply for an EAD, get a job, then hassle the employer to sponsor him or her to change status to H1b.