France -> USA
Took part in a coding competition on HackerRank, did well, applied for a job, did a few more interviews, flew to California :)
Ask HN: How did you migrate to the country you are living in now?
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#22France -> Canada, moved there when I was 15 years old with my parents and my sister. Did high school and college there.
We applied for perm resisdency (equivalent of green card), got it in ~1 year (my dad was an investor so made it fairly easy).
Canada -> USA, went to SF for a coding bootcamp and got a job once done. Got my Canadian citizenship by then, so came in with a TN, then applied for H1B and now doing green card.
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#23I migrated from Australia to Canada. I came initially on a 1 year working holiday visa. Then got a 1 year work visa through an employer while I worked on my permanent resident application (spousal sponsorship). PR was granted about 6 months after submission, and I got citizenship about 5 years later.
Don't spouse visas take over 12 months? I'm about the start the process of sponsoring my spouse and we are expecting it to take almost 2 years (we aren't living in Canada at the moment). EDIT: well they do say "up to 16 months" at the Ottawa processing center. So I guess given the time you'd already spent in Canada 6 months isn't that wild.
I migrated from the USA to Canada last year on spousal sponsorship and the process end-to-end took ~7 months. I submitted the application while I still lived in the US and I was told that helps me as far as processing times. I'm sure a lot of factors come in to play, though.
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#24France -> USA
Contracted for a US company in France, went to the US for the 2 weeks to train the American team on the project I was working on, stayed 2 more months because of the work needed, the American team ended up hiring me and payed for my green card.
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#25I migrated from Australia to Canada. I came initially on a 1 year working holiday visa. Then got a 1 year work visa through an employer while I worked on my permanent resident application (spousal sponsorship). PR was granted about 6 months after submission, and I got citizenship about 5 years later.
Don't spouse visas take over 12 months? I'm about the start the process of sponsoring my spouse and we are expecting it to take almost 2 years (we aren't living in Canada at the moment). EDIT: well they do say "up to 16 months" at the Ottawa processing center. So I guess given the time you'd already spent in Canada 6 months isn't that wild.
We submitted my wife's spousal sponsorship application April 2015. She got her PR status in 4 months.
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#26Perth, Australia -> Berlin, Germany I gave my boss at the time an ultimatum to transfer me to Europe or I'd resign after requesting a transfer for over a year. I bought a 1-way plane ticket to Berlin that same day and left 6 weeks later. I initially got a 1 year working holiday visa but eventually changed over to a working visa 18 months later (I spent last 9 months of that time trying to apply for a working visa, bu…
Hey! I lived the past 2 years in Perth and just got back to Brazil. I love that city...
But IT there kind of sucks, mostly mining companies.
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#27Spain > Belgium
Came to work for a Belgium co, now working for a USA co working on remote still form Belgium. 3 years of this already.
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#28Poland -> USA
Came on a six-month tourist visa, got locked out of return trip due to an ill-timed declaration of martial law back home. Silver lining was automatically receiving US resident status.
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#29Tokyo, Japan: Applied for an opening I spotted on Linkedin. Interviewed via skype over a few weeks. Got the job, got the standard engineer visa, and that was it.
Had you already passed JLPT?
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#30Edinburgh, Scotland -> Zurich, Switzerland
Applied for software development contracts in Zurich. Flew over for an interview. Got the contract. Said I wanted 12 months. Got that too. Quit my permanent job. Took the plane. Still here nearly 5 years later.