Coming here without a confirmed job offer and enough savings on hand to flee with zero notice is a slow way to destroy yourself. Us companies routinely lure people here with H1-b visas and then use the threat of firing them to exploit them. You get fired? No visa, no right to stay, now you're an illegal immigrant. There are firms that will hold that over you, then discard you when they're done with you.
If you come here you should keep enough cash on hand to get you and all our dependents on a plane, out of the country, and in to housing within a week. Also god help you if you're injure or sick. As an immigrant you'll have to pay cash and it is unbelievably expensive, like people from other parts of the world literally will not believe you when you show them a medical bill from the us.
None of the media about the us even remotely reflects what life is like in the us.
I live in an extremely wealthy, progressive city. There are dozens of homeless people in my neighborhood. Rent prices for even small shitty units are 1800 us dollars per month or more. No one is really hiring. Like, when I say homeless, I mean people pushing shopping carts with their stuff in them, sleeping on the streets in a different place each night to keep the cops off them. It's been below freezing most nights for months. The city government is passing new laws making it a crime to be homeless all the time. The just closed about half the city's pathetic shelters here.
If you come here you need to have thousands and thousands of dollars cash in an emergency fund so you can drive directly to the closest international airport, by a ticket somewhere you don't need a visa, and run.
Any time. It's important to understand what you're getting in to if you come here. It's your choice, I just want you to have all the tools and weapons you can get.
That's normal.
My company in Germany did the same to so many people, they also had zero legal standing. I don't know of places where you'd have legal standing.
My post states I may get a visa lottery, and it's the sole reason I am able to consider US.
Coming here without a confirmed job offer and enough savings on hand to flee with zero notice is a slow way to destroy yourself. Us companies routinely lure people here with H1-b visas and then use the threat of firing them to exploit them. You get fired? No visa, no right to stay, now you're an illegal immigrant. There are firms that will hold that over you, then discard you when they're done with you.
If you come here you should keep enough cash on hand to get you and all our dependents on a plane, out of the country, and in to housing within a week. Also god help you if you're injure or sick. As an immigrant you'll have to pay cash and it is unbelievably expensive, like people from other parts of the world literally will not believe you when you show them a medical bill from the us.
None of the media about the us even remotely reflects what life is like in the us.
I live in an extremely wealthy, progressive city. There are dozens of homeless people in my neighborhood. Rent prices for even small shitty units are 1800 us dollars per month or more. No one is really hiring. Like, when I say homeless, I mean people pushing shopping carts with their stuff in them, sleeping on the streets in a different place each night to keep the cops off them. It's been below freezing most nights for months. The city government is passing new laws making it a crime to be homeless all the time. The just closed about half the city's pathetic shelters here.
If you come here you need to have thousands and thousands of dollars cash in an emergency fund so you can drive directly to the closest international airport, by a ticket somewhere you don't need a visa, and run.
Thank you for the information. Genuinely appreciated.
Any time. It's important to understand what you're getting in to if you come here. It's your choice, I just want you to have all the tools and weapons you can get.