on the question of qualifications changing from country to country, generally they do not at all.

I am a USA nurse and to be a nurse in france I would have to take my last year of nursing school in france and take the french nursing test. than because i would be a newly starting
out nurse with no recognition for my previous experience in the usa, i would be obligated by
the unions to work nights and weekend for two years mimimum but could be longer. so i chose to teach english days during the week for almost the same pay as the nurses in france earn about a third of what they do in the usa.

very rarely do qualifications or university degrees make sense in forigen countries. some computer educations are transferable. some engineering skills are transferable depending on your language ability. but for the most part many educations are not recognized in foriegn countries without taking the standard test in your new country. my guess would be you would need to take the electrician journeymans lisence in the usa. one way to know would be to look on the internet at the state you are going to relocate to lisencing boards for electricians. if you are an english speaker my thought is that it would be possible to pass the test. likely you would need to take some mandatory safety classes also.

I have met some foriegn doctors who immigrated to the usa and although having completed their training for instance in india or germany. they must take their 4 year residency over again in order to be a doctor in the usa. i have also met a russian doctor who was refused immigration to the usa as a doctor and than went to nursing school and learned english and was able to emmigrate as a nurse to the usa and says he earns more as a nurse with safer better working conditions than he did as a doctor in russia.

anyway, in general qualifications do not transfer well, even computer tech stuff and programming, they likely would prefer someone who is local. i think the younger your are the easier it is to immigrate. it is almost like starting over. well it is starting over. so you better have a really good reason to do it.

c. nuttee