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Settlling...
Hi everyone.
I have now been in the US ~8 years, but always on visas through employment as I was never this certain that I wanted to settle here and invest more into it. I don't have a green card yet, have been on visas. I would like to ask anyone out there in similar boats...
I have two major options to apply for permanent residence in the US, and for some of those of you in similar situations, these may sound familiar:
US EB-1A Visa ? EB1A Green Card for Aliens of Extraordinary Ability - EB-1 Attorneys in Silicon Valley, Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Austin
EB-1B Visa ? Green Card for Outstanding Researcher/Professor ? Immigration Attorneys in Silicon Valley, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Austin
Any experiences on preferences between these, costs, timing?
Thanks
I have now been in the US ~8 years, but always on visas through employment as I was never this certain that I wanted to settle here and invest more into it. I don't have a green card yet, have been on visas. I would like to ask anyone out there in similar boats...
I have two major options to apply for permanent residence in the US, and for some of those of you in similar situations, these may sound familiar:
US EB-1A Visa ? EB1A Green Card for Aliens of Extraordinary Ability - EB-1 Attorneys in Silicon Valley, Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Austin
EB-1B Visa ? Green Card for Outstanding Researcher/Professor ? Immigration Attorneys in Silicon Valley, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Austin
Any experiences on preferences between these, costs, timing?
Thanks
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My university supports tenure track faculty for the 1B and they pay the legal fees, etc.
They are in essence "sponsors" and so usually there is no problem legally and it is a relatively easy process.
I don't know anything about the first one, but if your university legal team isn't willing to pay for / support it will you have to pay yourself, and what happens if you don't get it?
Finally, what are the advantages of the 1A relative to the the 1B aside from status?
They are in essence "sponsors" and so usually there is no problem legally and it is a relatively easy process.
I don't know anything about the first one, but if your university legal team isn't willing to pay for / support it will you have to pay yourself, and what happens if you don't get it?
Finally, what are the advantages of the 1A relative to the the 1B aside from status?
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My university supports tenure track faculty for the 1B and they pay the legal fees, etc.
They are in essence "sponsors" and so usually there is no problem legally and it is a relatively easy process.
They are in essence "sponsors" and so usually there is no problem legally and it is a relatively easy process.
what are the advantages of the 1A relative to the the 1B aside from status?
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Originally Posted by trachemys 
No idea but, you have two more years that Obama can amnesty you so I'd wait.
No... seriously, I am not afraid of all this... maybe just a little... but certainly no
probs arranging anything through my job. I think I just get paranoid every now and then... oh maybe time for some... ice cream!
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I don't think it is an "indentured" situation of sponsorship, is it haennie?
[i.e. once you have the green card and tenure, I would think you could move around to another university or into the private sector could you not?]
I would think long and hard about the kind of things corporations hire people who do brainwork for, however. . . pay might be great, but messing about with peoples mind's like defense subcontractors do, or helping corporations part the poor man from his fast-food dollar don't really strike me as your thing.
Makes our once-removed university situations more homey, doesn't it?
We don't have to actually apply what we think about, just think it up and publish
[i.e. once you have the green card and tenure, I would think you could move around to another university or into the private sector could you not?]
I would think long and hard about the kind of things corporations hire people who do brainwork for, however. . . pay might be great, but messing about with peoples mind's like defense subcontractors do, or helping corporations part the poor man from his fast-food dollar don't really strike me as your thing.
Makes our once-removed university situations more homey, doesn't it?
We don't have to actually apply what we think about, just think it up and publish
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Hawkeye - you seem know this "business" very well.
OK, so my situation. I was actually in a Tenure-track position even before I knew, in 2005, at age 31... then I came here, trading, for the third time in my life, really good faculty positions. You and everyone can see than most likely this "progression" since then has been a progression of an alkie.
So now, if I commit to my current job, they will cover and arrange all those green card things. I recognize that when I questioned all this, I actually also questioned my whole commitment to sobriety.
OK, so my situation. I was actually in a Tenure-track position even before I knew, in 2005, at age 31... then I came here, trading, for the third time in my life, really good faculty positions. You and everyone can see than most likely this "progression" since then has been a progression of an alkie.
So now, if I commit to my current job, they will cover and arrange all those green card things. I recognize that when I questioned all this, I actually also questioned my whole commitment to sobriety.
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Originally Posted by haennie
So now, if I commit to my current job, they will cover and arrange all those green card things. I recognize that when I questioned all this, I actually also questioned my whole commitment to sobriety.
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I get it--I would stay, take the tenure deal where you are right now and make sure
to get the pubs to cinch the deal. It's a lot easier to write sober.
After that you can try for a lateral or upwards move somewhere else depending on your research.
Use the traction you've got there and don't jump again right now.
You know how the CV reads with too much movement before initial tenure.
to get the pubs to cinch the deal. It's a lot easier to write sober.
After that you can try for a lateral or upwards move somewhere else depending on your research.
Use the traction you've got there and don't jump again right now.
You know how the CV reads with too much movement before initial tenure.
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Originally Posted by trachemys
Why?
No, I will be serious because this is actually serious for me. It's the love of my life, job-wise, if there is such a thing. I've been wandering around the world and round jobs, for years... drinking or not... because I never quite felt at home with who I was, what was most natural for me to do, and what I really wanted to do. And where. I think I found this 'niche' a few years ago... problem was... still drinking over it. So I got sober this year, and for me, it's the same perception and realization, I was on a good track but could never self-actualize the way I dreamed... as long as I was drinking. So the drinking had to go, and I don't ever plan to bring it back. I'm very much an existentialist, Trach. I did not invent that sort of thinking, but somehow I was born into it and have cultivated it in my whole life so far. Don't ask me why, I don't know. Just don't know any other way of living, I guess. OK, so now I will really go and eat my raspberry ice pint...
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Originally Posted by haennie
Because it's like ice cream, Trach. Can't get enough
No, I will be serious because this is actually serious for me. It's the love of my life, job-wise, if there is such a thing. I've been wandering around the world and round jobs, for years... drinking or not... because I never quite felt at home with who I was, what was most natural for me to do, and what I really wanted to do. And where. I think I found this 'niche' a few years ago... problem was... still drinking over it. So I got sober this year, and for me, it's the same perception and realization, I was on a good track but could never self-actualize the way I dreamed... as long as I was drinking. So the drinking had to go, and I don't ever plan to bring it back. I'm very much an existentialist, Trach. I did not invent that sort of thinking, but somehow I was born into it and have cultivated it in my whole life so far. Don't ask me why, I don't know. Just don't know any other way of living, I guess. OK, so now I will really go and eat my raspberry ice pint...
No, I will be serious because this is actually serious for me. It's the love of my life, job-wise, if there is such a thing. I've been wandering around the world and round jobs, for years... drinking or not... because I never quite felt at home with who I was, what was most natural for me to do, and what I really wanted to do. And where. I think I found this 'niche' a few years ago... problem was... still drinking over it. So I got sober this year, and for me, it's the same perception and realization, I was on a good track but could never self-actualize the way I dreamed... as long as I was drinking. So the drinking had to go, and I don't ever plan to bring it back. I'm very much an existentialist, Trach. I did not invent that sort of thinking, but somehow I was born into it and have cultivated it in my whole life so far. Don't ask me why, I don't know. Just don't know any other way of living, I guess. OK, so now I will really go and eat my raspberry ice pint...
I want ice cream now.
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Originally Posted by Hawkeye13
I get it--I would stay, take the tenure deal where you are right now and make sure
to get the pubs to cinch the deal. It's a lot easier to write sober.
After that you can try for a lateral or upwards move somewhere else depending on your research.
Use the traction you've got there and don't jump again right now.
You know how the CV reads with too much movement before initial tenure.
to get the pubs to cinch the deal. It's a lot easier to write sober.
After that you can try for a lateral or upwards move somewhere else depending on your research.
Use the traction you've got there and don't jump again right now.
You know how the CV reads with too much movement before initial tenure.
Thanks again so much, friends
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Originally Posted by Hawkeye13
Besides, if you are in NYC you can get some of the best freaking ice cream in the world round the clock.
Can I spell J-E-A-L-O-U-S
Can I spell J-E-A-L-O-U-S
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Well, let's get out my trusty gelato maker and go right to town making it.
See you in twenty minutes.
That's a sure cure for the existential blues
I'll bring my guitar and we can sing a few bars
while the machine works its frosty magic on the *Cow sauce.
*not our Cow's sauce, just Cow sauce in a generic sense. . .
See you in twenty minutes.
That's a sure cure for the existential blues
I'll bring my guitar and we can sing a few bars
while the machine works its frosty magic on the *Cow sauce.
*not our Cow's sauce, just Cow sauce in a generic sense. . .
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