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Gareth Slee 07-02-2003, 06:55 AM I'm a British citizen and I'm hoping to retire within the next few years. Will I be able to buy property in the USA and maybe find work? I would like to live there full time. Is this possible? Thanks -- Gareth Slee http://www.garethslee.com http://www.lapie.com Gareth Slee 07-02-2003, 06:58 AM I should add that I have family who are USA citizens. However they are second cousins. I've heard something about them being able to sponsor non citizens? Anyone? -- Gareth Slee http://www.garethslee.com http://www.lapie.com S B 07-02-2003, 08:44 AM Gareth Slee wrote: I'm a British citizen and I'm hoping to retire within the next few years. Will I be able to buy property in the USA and maybe find work? I would like to live there full time. Is this possible? No, retirees are no longer an option under current US immigration law. S B 07-02-2003, 08:44 AM Gareth Slee wrote: I should add that I have family who are USA citizens. However they are second cousins. I've heard something about them being able to sponsor non citizens? Anyone? Too distant a relative. xxx 07-02-2003, 09:20 AM Up to a brother or sister. If you have one that is a US citizen, she/he can petition you under the 4th preference family-based category. "Gareth Slee" <gar.slee@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:bdv08c$1182ca$1@ID-162923.news.dfncis.de... | "S B" <s_brook.nothere@not.here.for.spam.att.canada.ca> wrote in message | news:3F02FDFA.C3C319E4@not.here.for.spam.att.canad a.ca... | > | > Too distant a relative. | | | How close a relative would they need to be? | | -- | Gareth Slee | | http://www.garethslee.com | http://www.lapie.com | | S B 07-03-2003, 07:44 AM "Stephen C. Gallagher" wrote: I'm a British citizen and I'm hoping to retire within the next few years. Will I be able to buy property in the USA and maybe find work? I would like to live there full time. Is this possible? No, retirees are no longer an option under current US immigration law. Were they ever an option under US law? I know that Canada used to have a retiree category, but I wasn't aware that the US ever had an immigration category for retirees. I believe so ... a lot of Canadians and Brits retired to Florida many years back. Sylvia Ottemoeller 07-03-2003, 11:33 AM "Gareth Slee" <gar.slee@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:bdv08c$1182ca$1@ID-162923.news.dfncis.de... "S B" <s_brook.nothere@not.here.for.spam.att.canada.ca> wrote in message news:3F02FDFA.C3C319E4@not.here.for.spam.att.canad a.ca... Too distant a relative. How close a relative would they need to be? This spells it out: http://www.immigration.gov/graphics/services/residency/family.htm Sylvia Ottemoeller 07-03-2003, 11:56 AM "Stephen C. Gallagher" <stephenblock.gallaghermail@rogers.com> wrote in message news:CjMMa.49027$x4o.39985@news04.bloor.is.net.cab le.rogers.com... I'm a British citizen and I'm hoping to retire within the next few years. Will I be able to buy property in the USA and maybe find work? I would like to live there full time. Is this possible? No, retirees are no longer an option under current US immigration law. Were they ever an option under US law? I know that Canada used to have a retiree category, but I wasn't aware that the US ever had an immigration category for retirees. Long ago there was a category called nonpreference. When all the family-based and employment-based preference categories had used all their numbers for the year, the remaining numbers were assigned to the nonpreference category. Nonpreference applicants consisted of people immigrating to the U.S. simply because they wanted to. It was not for retirees, workers, or anyone in particular. There was a wait for the quota of years. It think it was some time during the 1970s that the "nonpreference" category was omitted from the visa bulletin, because there was no realistic prospect of ever again having preference numbers left over. |
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