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Hi guys,
My wife and I are both Aussies and we were lucky enough to have won the Aussie GC lottery here in Australia. At the time of the application our situation was significantly different than what it is now. We were we working on part time jobs and have had just come back to sydney from a long year trying ( unsuccessfully) to relocate overseas to Latin America where I'm originally from. That didnt work for many reasons mainly due to language barriers as my wife cans speak spanish. So applying for a US Visa seemed like the perfect choice as we could both work, and be part of a culture we enjoyed so much. But also we saw moving to America as a new chapter in our lives, somewhere we could start over fresh.
Back here in Sydney and after all the waiting we finally heard back from the Immigration Office and were finally told that we were selected , so we won. This was around the same time my wife had just been offered the best job shes ever had here in Sydney working in marketing for a big car company. It was the same for me, after years struggling through the GFC I was offered a job working for Sydney's largest radio network. So we thought we might just wait and see how things panned out as we hadn't even had our meeting yet.
Months went by and we finally had our interview on jan this year - where we were told we won this visa, but that we had only 6 months to move completely to the U.Ss!! We asked them if we needed to have the sticker stamped right away on our passports and the officer said no, that we had til sept 2012 to get the sticker on and then 6 months after that to finally move.
So, we got pregnant in the midst of all this, and now I have a baby on the way and a looming deadline to move to a country where either me or my wife will have a job, let alone shelter or support for our newborn.
My question - thanks for reading through so far. How can I keep my gc for at least the first 2 years while my kid spends his first years close to his Australian family? Do I have no other choice but to forfeit my long lost dream of working in America? Can anybody see a way out of this which doesn't involve us uprooting everything and be stranded in California jobless with a newborn or stuck in Sydney for the rest of our lives.
Many thanks for your collective wisdom.
k
My wife and I are both Aussies and we were lucky enough to have won the Aussie GC lottery here in Australia. At the time of the application our situation was significantly different than what it is now. We were we working on part time jobs and have had just come back to sydney from a long year trying ( unsuccessfully) to relocate overseas to Latin America where I'm originally from. That didnt work for many reasons mainly due to language barriers as my wife cans speak spanish. So applying for a US Visa seemed like the perfect choice as we could both work, and be part of a culture we enjoyed so much. But also we saw moving to America as a new chapter in our lives, somewhere we could start over fresh.
Back here in Sydney and after all the waiting we finally heard back from the Immigration Office and were finally told that we were selected , so we won. This was around the same time my wife had just been offered the best job shes ever had here in Sydney working in marketing for a big car company. It was the same for me, after years struggling through the GFC I was offered a job working for Sydney's largest radio network. So we thought we might just wait and see how things panned out as we hadn't even had our meeting yet.
Months went by and we finally had our interview on jan this year - where we were told we won this visa, but that we had only 6 months to move completely to the U.Ss!! We asked them if we needed to have the sticker stamped right away on our passports and the officer said no, that we had til sept 2012 to get the sticker on and then 6 months after that to finally move.
So, we got pregnant in the midst of all this, and now I have a baby on the way and a looming deadline to move to a country where either me or my wife will have a job, let alone shelter or support for our newborn.
My question - thanks for reading through so far. How can I keep my gc for at least the first 2 years while my kid spends his first years close to his Australian family? Do I have no other choice but to forfeit my long lost dream of working in America? Can anybody see a way out of this which doesn't involve us uprooting everything and be stranded in California jobless with a newborn or stuck in Sydney for the rest of our lives.
Many thanks for your collective wisdom.
k
