Has anyone from the UK moved to USA?

I know two that did so. They were both offered jobs in the USA and their employer sponsored them. They both have masters degrees in engineering. To move to the USA you must have a sponsor. The sponsor has to be a parent, child over age 21, husband, wife or employer already in the USA.

Oh I think I heard of it happening once or twice. Pretty rare.

Unless you are independently wealthy, obtain a fiancé/fiancée visa, or have immediate family already in America who will act as sponsors you will need a job + a work visa to move to the USA. You need a sponsor (employer) for a work visa - you can't apply for one on your own. http://travel.state.gov/visa/visa_1750.html Check with US companies in the UK and UK companies with offices in the USA. For example, Hilton and Marriott hire international staff as interns. UK citizens can visit the USA for up to 90 days as a tourist, so you could travel for interviews & tests if necessary. https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/ http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/without/without_1990.html http://www.usembassy.org.uk/visaservices/?p=129 Search "international exchange programs USA" and there should be many links to programs that offer temporary and seasonal work in the US. Examples are: http://www.ccusa.com/country.aspx http://yummyjobs.com/ http://www.bunac.org/uk/workamerica/ Do carefully check any programs you might be interested in as not all of them are a good deal. Another option is to go to school in the USA. UK citizens can more easily get a US student visa (compared with getting a work visa) and you MAY be able to work on-campus. Having a USA university diploma or certificate will make applying for jobs easier, and going to school in the US will help you decide if you really want to move here. www.collegesintheusa.com/ If you decide to go to university in the USA the first step is to identify several schools you might want to attend and make contact with their offices of international students For example: http://global.tulane.edu/oiss/ http://oiss.uno.edu/ Note that it is equally or even more difficult for an American to move to the UK. Good luck!

You cannot move to the US or Australia without a job lined up first and your employer applying for that work visa.

it depends on where you live on both parts. london is extremely expensive so if you live there, moving to somewhere in the south will be a lot cheaper for you than moving on either coast of america. all 3 countries, however are pretty expensive and first world super powers like usa and australia are stupid hard to get into. you cant just move. you have to go through an insane amount of work. first off, you need a job that "we" need. then you need a sponsor and a workers visa. there are other criteria also, but i dont know since im not an immigrant.

Unfortunately, you can't just decide to "move" to the US as a UK citizen. Like others mentioned, you will need to have some sort of visa situation lined up ahead of time. Your easiest non-marriage visas are going to be work visas (though those will NOT be easy to get, unless you are in a highly technical field and can prove that you can do a job that an American can't) or student visas (which they will hand you on a silver platter if you can afford it, but, be warned, school in the United States is VERY expensive for foreign students). What you can do if you want to try is come here using the visa waiver program for 90 days (basically, come as a tourist), and you can certainly job hunt if you'd like. That's not illegal. However, you'll need to apply for jobs who have the ability and the desire to offer you a visa, and most non-technical jobs won't bother. I mean, any American could work in retail, why would they go through the hoops to get you a visa? As NOLA guy mentioned, the one major exception to this is volunteer work and camp work, which you could certainly nab. Of course, this doesn't pay and it's not permanent. But if you want to be in the US and not just be a total tourist, volunteering is a good option. If it makes you feel any better, it's just as hard for a US citizen to move to the UK, so, all's fair in love and war. I would imagine you would have an easier time with Australia or New Zealand as they are both members of the Commonwealth, and, at minimum, you can get working holiday visas there. Your best bet with any Anglophone country is to find a citizen to marry, frankly. This is likely the least headache-inducing option. Though, I'd recommend actually LIKING the person first, otherwise it could become an extreme headache, ifyaknowwhatImean.