Jun 9, 2008 3
United States Visa Process - Australian E3
When the opportunity to move to the United States first came up, the number one potential issue in my mind was obtaining a working visa. The U.S. Embassy website makes the process seem incredibly complex, and the only first-hand accounts of the visa application process made it sound very hard and daunting. Plus, these accounts were from people that had their University degrees, which the Embassy says is a requirement, but I didn’t even have this (though I did have a lot of work experience).
I am writing this to let people that are thinking about going through the process for an E3 visa know that while there are a lot of forms to fill in, the process is overall very painless. The actual interview session, which is the part most people are most worried about, took no more than two minutes.
What follows are the tips and processes that I followed. This is by no means legal advise, but is what I did to successfully secure my working visa. Read the rest of this entry »