Thursday, November 29, 2007

Moving to the Gulf Coast of Florida - Part 2

On returning place and steeled with resoluteness to halt daydreaming and make something about moving to Florida, we first resorted to probably one of the most powerful hunt tools around - the internet. We weren't the first people to believe about immigrating to Sunshine State and wouldn't be the last. What we establish was a monolithic ex-pat community online via a figure of forums, sharing their experiences and general tips on life in Sunshine State that we could tap into. It was a great starting point. By reading what other echt immigrants had gone through, it at least gave us a few key arrows on what way to travel in.

First and foremost, we discovered pretty much immediately that in our peculiar personal situation, there was only one type of visa unfastened to us if we wished to dwell in Florida. Although the United States Immigration Department have many different types of visa available, you necessitate to first work out which 1s are applicable to your nationality. Then, once you've narrowed down the picks available, you again necessitate to reexamine which criteria you sit down in so you cognize which visa(s) you can use for.

In our personal lawsuit there was only one type of visa available - to be a concern investor, otherwise known as an E-2 visa. Simply set this meant we had to buy and tally a business; effectively be self-employed. We could not acquire in Sunshine State and get a occupation to back up ourselves; this would be viewed as taking employment away from an American. The regulations pertaining to this type of visa were that we must put a lower limit amount of money (the lower limit is put by the United States Government), tally the concern and turn it to certain net income marks as set by the United States Embassy. We must use a certain amount of United States citizens. Therefore what the Embassy was basically telling us via the visa criteria was they wanted enterprisers who were going to lend to society; people who would turn the economic system and contribute.

On learning what the guideline lower limit investing pecuniary amount was we had to halt and intermission for a moment. It was a significant but accomplishable amount of money. However in order for us to follow with the guideline amount, it required us to set our life's nest egg on the line and gamble against a new life in Florida. To add to the dilemma, the visa regulations stated that this was not a lasting visa or a greenish card. The visa on offering was valid for 2 or 5 years, depending on your lawsuit and what the United States Embassy was willing to publish once they had reviewed your concern case. You have got the issued clip period of time to run your business, accomplish the ends laid out by the Embassy and then re-apply for a renewal at the end of the term. If you have got achieved or surpassed the ends set, you will probably have a renewal for another 2 or 5 years. If you failed to ran into your targets, then your visa would probably be revoked (every lawsuit is validated on an individual basis) and you have got 2 hebdomads to pack up your life in Sunshine State and tax return home.

A sobering thought. Gamble our life's nest egg on a concern venture that may or may not work with no citizenship at the end of it. By how much did we desire to dwell in Florida? Were we prepared to interest everything we had on a daydream?

The simple reply was yes, we were. After mulling it over, we came to the decision that we were so unhappy with our current lives and way we were going in we had to give it a shot. We didn't desire to "what if" the remainder of our lives. The other thing we gleaned from reading about other people's experiences is we definitely felt we needed professional aid to voyage the slippery laws of in-migration and the communications protocol of the United States Embassy. We needed an in-migration specializer to steer us and assist us with the paperwork.

And so the adjacent measure we needed to take was dictated to us by our initial research; happen a good enlightened in-migration expert who understood our demands and could steer us towards our goal.

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