Jobs you can get on a visa?

Question

Hi.

Well, I currently live in London, and in around 2 years, I hope to attend a film school/college in Los Angeles. I am an aspiring writer and director and LA is where I want to live my life.

So, I know that when you go to college to another country, you are on an F1 visa. As soon as you graduate, then you gotta leave and go back. I don't want this to happen at all. My best friend (american) is in the states and I will probably make close friends and even partners, and I don't just want to "leave". So my career is to be a writer and director. But I have read that it must be a job that no american can do, which is understandable.

I mean...for instance, I send a script to a movie company, they accept and want me to make it into a blockbuster....would I get a visa to work in LA? Or perhaps I build my career ladder and start out as a production assisant...is that a job that I could apply for? Maybe working on a set? idk.

I want to work and live there permanently. Love it! =)

Answer 1

I think the immigration people should have a list on what jobs you can or can't hold on a visa.  For example, medicine, I know, you can not practice on a visa.  Any kind of medicine; be it clinical practice or surgery, and common sense dictates it makes logical sense.

While still here just apply for a worker's visa, but do your homework on what jobs it will let you hold.  It may not let you work as a writer/director, so you may have apply for a residence outright.  I won't lie to you; those visa things can be strange and downright messed up.  A PhD in one field for example, may be allowed to work with a visa, but a PhD in another may not be allowed at all, per the convenience of the government.

What work visas allow and don't allow, is largely dependent on the mood swings of congress.  In WWII for example, on the eve of the manhattan project (building nukes), it was very easy for ANY Phycisist (is that how you spell it?), to obtain a worker visa.  Hopefully, congress is in the mood for more writer/directors in Hollywood.

good luck.

Answer 2

Too bloody bad if you don't want to go home after completing college.  Student visas are issued on the condition that the student return home immediately upon completing or terminating studies.  There is a film industry in UK.  So there are jobs for you at home.

What if you wrote a blockbuster script?  You won't direct or produce without any experience.  You will stay right there in the UK.  If you are asked to do the rewrites, you can FedEx it.  Production assistants do not qualify for employment passes -- no shortage of qualified Americans for those jobs.  In fact, there are about 100 aspiring production assistants for each (temporary) position.

You need a much more realistic view of what Holly-rude is really like.  You're career plans are seriously out-of-whack with reality.

Answer 3

If you want to work in the U.S. you need to apply for a work visa.