electricians

[parrot 2]

hi everyone,

Not sure if anyone can help me on this one but my parents have just bought a business in orlando and have their e2 visas and they are now sorting my visa out by bringing me over as staff.

The question is my husband is an electrician here and would like to carry on over there but dont know what he has to do to convert his english qualifications to american ???? i guess there must be a course he can take ???

any help appreciated

thanks [msnsmile2]

[cdrako]

Hi Parrot,

Go to myfloridalicenses.com - that should give you the information you want or at least contact information for the DBPR - Department of Business & Professional Regulation - to find out.

Hope this helps.

[parrot 2]

thankyou cindy i shall look that up now [msnsmile2]

[steph_goodrum]

Can your parents take you over as staff on E2 so quickly if they haven't even moved yet? I thought you had to employ US staff unless you could prove that there was no US citizen who could do the job.
I dont know if the size of the business and turnover affects it does it?
We wondered about the feasibility if we bought a place whether we could then sell part of the business to our daughter when she reached 21 and wouldnt be able to stay on her own but it looked like the only way she could do that would be only ever work in the same business. I though to sponsor non US citizens you had to be established first unless it was in inter company transfer so it wouldn't be an E2 visa but an L (whatever no goes with it).
Not trying to be nosey but if we don't ask we'll never learn and would kick ourselves if there was something we could have maybe tried and dismissed because we didn't have all the correct info.

[parrot 2]

hi steph,

i have no idea how it all works to be honest but they have put alot of money into a business which already has american staff.
They will keep these staff on but then extend it so as to create jobs for me and my brother. we have a business here already so maybe thats why we can do this. it wont be straight away but hopefully by the end of the year.
As far as your daughter goes i really have no idea sorry but i would advise you to talk to a good business lawyer out there as if you can show on paper that she would be investing money im sure there would be a way for it to happen.... [msnsmile2][msnsmile2]

[steph_goodrum]

That may be how it is working then if it is set up as a branch of your existing business but they both have to keep trading till you get permanent residence I think.
We decided the timing wasn't right for us so will just wait and see what the future holds and if it seems feasible may investigate a bit more further down the line. As our daughter will be 21 next year and is at uni there isn't much point doing too much yet or making set plans in our case at the moment.

[parrot 2]

yes they will have to keep trading indefinatly as on a E2 visa this is the only way you can stay in the country as unfortunatly never leads to a green card unless you do something called change of status which is something i would never do as if ever come back here they will not let you re-enter usa[msnscared] they dont make it easy for us brits a heeheee

we have wanted to move out to orlando since 1990 but only now parents have retired are able to do so...i personally cant wait, i already have a house out there and get so depressed when have to come home to the rain ha ha. i will be going in 2 weeks time when parents do but only for two weeks and in this time will have to sort out what husband can do out there [msnsmile2]

[esprit]

Contact these for the contractor state licensing requirements. He will almost certainly need to take their exams, they recognise practically no UK qualifications here.
Florida Electrical Contractors Licensing Board
1940 North Monroe Street, Suite 60
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0711
Phone: (904) 488-3109
Fax: (904) 488-1830


I seriously think you may not find it that easy to get an E2 employees visa especially so quickly.
You would be going as a specialist worker and am cutting and pasting some information.

Specialist or Essential Skilled Workers:

Visas for this type of employee are somewhat more difficult to obtain. One must demonstrate that:

A US resident worker could not fill the position;
The employment of the treaty national is necessary for the running of the principal trader or investor's business in the USA;
US workers will be trained to replace the treaty national (details of the proposed training must be given).
If the above criteria are met then an E-visa as specialist worker can be obtained, but is considerably more difficult to renew than an Executive/Managerial E visa.

So you see, it is not intended to be a permanent solution, just until US workers are trained up. If you have a business back home you would be much better trying to get an L1 in your own right. Especially as there are other family members also wanting to get E2s from the same company. I think you will be lucky if the embassy wear this.

If it is a large business, the correct way to have done this would have been as follows.

Your father and your husband both apply as principal E2 holders of the business with you and your mother as dependants. They then both get an E2 investors visa each and no need for all this then. But it is probably too late now.