US Greencard Lottery
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My attention was brought the other day to the fact that America apparently randomly awards a few thousand green cards each year to applicants of a "lottery".
As someone who would love to live and work out here but has no family etc currently out here, my options up until now were to join a US company in the UK and work my way out (long and not guaranteed) or find a nice American girl to marry (even longer and less guaranteed)
Aaaaanyway, has anyone on here ever gained citizenship this way? Can anyone tell me more about it? I have researched it and the only official US Government page I can find on it simply states that applications for next year closed at the beginning of this year - not especially informative.
As someone who would love to live and work out here but has no family etc currently out here, my options up until now were to join a US company in the UK and work my way out (long and not guaranteed) or find a nice American girl to marry (even longer and less guaranteed)
Aaaaanyway, has anyone on here ever gained citizenship this way? Can anyone tell me more about it? I have researched it and the only official US Government page I can find on it simply states that applications for next year closed at the beginning of this year - not especially informative.
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ChemicalChaos said:
My attention was brought the other day to the fact that America apparently randomly awards a few thousand green cards each year to applicants of a "lottery".
As someone who would love to live and work out here but has no family etc currently out here, my options up until now were to join a US company in the UK and work my way out (long and not guaranteed) or find a nice American girl to marry (even longer and less guaranteed)
Aaaaanyway, has anyone on here ever gained citizenship this way? Can anyone tell me more about it? I have researched it and the only official US Government page I can find on it simply states that applications for next year closed at the beginning of this year - not especially informative.
I have a green card, although i took the 'Joining a US company and moving up' route. As someone who would love to live and work out here but has no family etc currently out here, my options up until now were to join a US company in the UK and work my way out (long and not guaranteed) or find a nice American girl to marry (even longer and less guaranteed)
Aaaaanyway, has anyone on here ever gained citizenship this way? Can anyone tell me more about it? I have researched it and the only official US Government page I can find on it simply states that applications for next year closed at the beginning of this year - not especially informative.
Easiest way is to marry. This is second easiest.
The grass isn't always greener though.. Many downsides to being here over the UK.
marshalla said:
Point 2 on the list, half-way down the page : http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2012/09/how-...
Lots of misinformation in that link - must be ancient too - there are no visas for nurses and PTs anymore. 
I thought at one point the OP eluded to being employed by Eli Lilly and Co - I do a lot of work for "The Colonel" and know that they sponsor a lot of L1 petitions for scientists, researchers, marketers etc. That would be his best route, assuming it wasn't BS and he could tolerate Indiana in the winter...
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