Going to learn a trade?

[Lance]

I'm hoping to get out of the country, having finished schooling (only 17!) and live in america. I'm looking for work as a carpenter / joiner, preferrably doing construction but i'll take the furniture if it's all i can get.. and was wondering if anyone knew what i'd need to do to be allowed to stay there? i'd need a work visa, i know, but is there much to go through?

Please, any comments about me being too young to go abroad on my own? To yourselves. There are a couple of families that know mine quite closely in houston and galveston, so I'll be ok if i'm within driving distance of them

Also, anyone know a carpenter looking for understudies / apprentices in the houston area? Though i'm starting calling scores of them soon, so I'm bound to find someone.

Ta all! and Hello first post!

[Fatbrit]

Originally Posted by Lance

I'm hoping to get out of the country, having finished schooling (only 17!) and live in america. I'm looking for work as a carpenter / joiner, preferrably doing construction but i'll take the furniture if it's all i can get.. and was wondering if anyone knew what i'd need to do to be allowed to stay there? i'd need a work visa, i know, but is there much to go through?

Please, any comments about me being too young to go abroad on my own? To yourselves. There are a couple of families that know mine quite closely in houston and galveston, so I'll be ok if i'm within driving distance of them

Also, anyone know a carpenter looking for understudies / apprentices in the houston area? Though i'm starting calling scores of them soon, so I'm bound to find someone.

Ta all! and Hello first post!

Basically, it ain't gonna happen. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news and all that, but better that than getting your hopes up without addressing the crux of the problem -- there is no suitable visa for your plans.

[Lance]

You can't be serious? no way to get into a country to take a JOB? because that's all I'd be doing, as that's how you train for carpentry! i'd be on a wage and paying taxes, and they'd not let me in?

bunch of morons, if that's the case.

[Fatbrit]

Totally serious.

[RICHNTRISH]

You'll be lucky !!
Your only young choose your trade wisely now and in 5 years you will be able to make it happen .

[Lance]

Well... would wood be a good skill? A lot of american houses are wooden... I'd want to do furniture, eventually - I suppose that goes anywhere, but I was hoping to do america first! and keep moving around after some years there.. blasted visas.

[synthia]

The chance that you will ever get a visa for the US as a carpenter is pretty much zero. We do not have, nor have we ever had, a sufficient shortage to put carpenters on the list of needed professions. An employer would have to provide evidence that it wasn't possible to hire an American or a green card holder to do the job, spend money and probably hire a lawyer to handle the application, and be willing to wait until the application was processed. That is if you were already a skilled and experienced carpenter.

[Lance]

The chance that you will ever get a visa for the US as a carpenter is pretty much zero. We do not have, nor have we ever had, a sufficient shortage to put carpenters on the list of needed professions. An employer would have to provide evidence that it wasn't possible to hire an American or a green card holder to do the job, spend money and probably hire a lawyer to handle the application, and be willing to wait until the application was processed. That is if you were already a skilled and experienced carpenter.

poo

Oh well. There's plenty more to the world than america If there's no chance, I'd still pick the carpentry.