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3 times a day, 2 hours a session... ooh how rude.

Seriously though, you don't stand a hope in hell. Well there is one way which I will give you at the end of the post.

Here is my experience of this visa thing.

Back in 2002 I applied for South King County Medic One in Seattle. IMHO one of the best EMS systems I have come across.

Anyway very long and expensive story (£10,000 in flights, car rental hire etc etc later) I went over there about 4 or 5 times to go through the testing process which was challenging and fun at the same time. This took a few months at during this period of time I had 2 (not one but TWO) immigration lawyers working on my problem - getting a green card.

Option one - student visa, is a no go because the the education for medic one is not a degree and therefore didn't apply and once I had completed the course I still wouldn't be eligible for the following reason...

Option 2 - H1B green card requires that ANY job is filled by an American and only if there are no other US citizens available for the job can an alien apply. As there were a lot, I mean A LOT, of medics apply for one of 4 jobs the INS said that there were Americans that can fill the position and therefore they get it.. every time!

Option three - exchange visa - this is OK for a short while but will not allow you to actually be employed in the US even after the exchange has finished.

Option 4 - already been mentioned but is not as straight forward as it seems - marry an american. Even if you do this INS can still refuse you at interview.

Option 5 - USAIR immigration lottery which is cool as long as you are anything else other than British because they are not eligible. I am South African (by birth) and tried that route and guess what - no joy but spent a lot of money trying.

Option 6 - get a green card in an existing company. I had this option to be a director of a Plastics company in Florida - the problem, is that the green card is not trasnferrable across professions - hmm.

Option 7 - and this is the only way I know for certain that you can get in. Ready for it - it'll cost ya....

Sell your house in the UK ad invest in excess of $150,000 dollars in a US company - my immigration lawyer gave me an option of 230 companies I can buy into!!!!! You then name your wife as the director of the company. You automatically get a green card as a spouse of which you can do with as you which.

One thing you cant do is enter as a specialist - doctors and nurses, athletes and scientists are specilists - EMS workers are not.

So at the end of the day - sell you hour, buy a business and put it in the name of your spouse (bad move) and hopefully you will swim and not sink.

I was not prepared to take that chance - I regret in some ways not doing so. But my scope of practice now is greater than it would have been in Medic One. All I need now is a social life... Cornwall is as boring as sh*t.

ooh and can I have a look at your picture - I'll place it on my computer as the background wallpaper... :)

Mike xxxxx

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Can't be too hard, I took that test and got 100%; the only questions I stumbled on was:

"Which of the following amendments to the Constitution does NOT address or guarantee voting rights?"

I clicked 7th, and it turned out to be right.

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