Does the visa I want even exist?

[iishlegend 1]

i was reading up on H-1B, and sounds like this suits you.

Basically, you need to find employer(s) to sponsor your stay. They will need to file taxes with the IRS, and report your earnings. If you move from state to state, you will need to file taxes for each state, and the years thereafter. You will need to update all your previous employers on your most recent address as they will need to send you the W-2 form when u file your federal taxes.

With a H-1B you can work for any employers or more than one, as long as each employer file a petition on your behalf. If you intent to work as a consultant, moving from state to state but remain with the same employer, you will only need to file taxes with your home state.

You can consider other visas such as E2 investor, but you need to prove that you are operating a legal enterprise and hiring workers.

The current regulations favour hiring US workers over aliens. And labor laws mandate that you must be earning the minimum wage or at least the prevailing wage levels. Your employer will need to file these too.

[Boiler 46,144]

Costs $5-10,000 for an Employer to file a H1b.

How do you suppose he meets the educational requirements?

[Jonkyl 0]

I thought that myself, plus it means a full time job which is exactly what I am trying to avoid. Is there anything that would allow me to work and travel in Canada or aus for a similar period if time?

[iishlegend 1]

the average Brit should finish A levels by 18, and perhaps enrol part-time in UOL to get a degree.

Try new zealand. they have a work visa programme. basically you have to get a job offer. whether it is part-time, temporary, transferable... you should work it out yourself.

[NancyNguyen 1,658]

Sorry but US has a lot of computer geeks... Best Buy is filled with them.

[kehills 217]

Why's that then?

Because you've expressly dismissed the only path open to you.

[Jonkyl 0]

Because you've expressly dismissed the only path open to you.

You're right I have dismissed the only option I really have but with good reasons...

I don't want to quit a very good job in the uk for a few months tied down in a different country to then come home to no job.

[Ladylethal 12]

It seems for you a work from home position (like some IT jobs) that would allow you to work from anywhere seems like your option, you could then travel around the world while working from your laptop or something. A few lucky people actually live that way for a while, and I imagine the UK has some positions that are like that, although I imagine they're hard to find or get into, and you need to be super disciplined to make it work.

[christeen 966]

No such visa exists... The suggestion to come as a tourist and work remotely ,from abroad via computer would be your best bet. VWP will get you 90 days, the B2 visa will get you 6 months (keep in mind if you get denied the B visa it makes you ESTA ineligable and without strong ties to home country the B2 is unlikely) ... So there is no path that currently exists to do what you are wanting.

[Penguin_ie 5,997]

If you have your heart set on travelling in the US, then your best bet is to use the Visa Waiver program to travel and have fun, NOT work, go home to work for a few months, when you have enough money come back to the US to travel etc etc. If you spend more time outside the US than inside and can show you have enpuhg funds to travel without working, you can do that for a couple of years easily.

Your other option if it's more the travelling-and-working you are after is Australia, which has a working holiday visa.

[mtempelaar 190]

These responses are for the most part not very nice.

The Visa Waiver Program will allow you to stay for 90 days but you cannot work. You have to leave at the end. You can come back but each time you do (if not enough time between visits) you will have a harder and harder getting through customs. So you shouldn't try coming for 90 days, leave for 2 weeks and then come back for 90 days. Again, NO work.

An H1B visa (if you can get one) allows you to work but only for a single employer. Now that employer may give you a job that allows you to travel around a bit but what you get assigned to is pretty much out of your control. This would be an IBM or other type of company offering consulting services. Best you MAY be able to get here based on age and experience is an internship, which I doubt you could get an visa for anywhere.

A student visa may be possible for continuing education but you are tied to that university, cannot work until you have been here a year, and cannot travel unless no classes. And you are certainly late to try and get into a university now for a quick start.

Basically, there's nothing that meets your specific needs, so you need to figure out what's important to you and also what you can afford.

[AmyWrites 593]

J-1 visa?

[Boiler 46,144]

J-1 visa?

Age and qualifications.

[AmyWrites 593]

Age and qualifications.

Yeah, he'd have to wait a few years

[David & Diana R 1,005]

What are my best options if any?

There are NO options.