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Whats a WORKING VISA and how can i go about getting one?

  • I used to have a job where i worked with an irish girl who said she was here on a working visa. Now, i'm working at a kiosk at a local mall and the girl working with me is here from Israel on a working visa. I really want to go to England and work but i'm not exactly sure how i can go about getting there. The irish girl told me she got the visa and then came to america to find a job and the girl from Israel told me she found a job here in america and they helped her get the working visa. I want one but not sure how to get it. I graduated high school last year in May and so i took a year off. I'm 18, so how can i get a working visa???

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    Taken from wikipedia... "A visa (from the Latin charta visa, lit. "paper that has been seen"[1]) is an indication that a person is authorized to enter the territory for which it was "issued", subject to permission of an immigration official at the time of actual entry. The authorization may be a document, but more commonly it is a stamp endorsed in the applicant's passport. Some countries do not require a visa in some situations, such as a result of reciprocal treaty arrangements. The country issuing the visa typically attaches various conditions to the visa, such as the territory covered by the visa, the time that the visa is valid, the period that the person may stay in the country, whether the visa is valid for more than one visit, etc." In other words, it allows you to work in countries outside the one you were born in without getting a citizenship. Contact the consulate of the country in which you intend to work. Most consulates are located in Washington, D.C.

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It is not going to be easy - Britain has started to close the borders on everyone and their mother due to all the massive immigration that took place under the Labour government. Part of what has been done is the usage of a points system in order to see if you are eligible for a visa. The point system has 5 tiers; the third one (unskilled temporary migration - this is the one for people that have no university degrees or job experience) is currently suspended. I am attaching a link to a points calculator, so give it a try and see where it takes you. Good luck!

Paul from Mars

A visa is a paper that demonstrates where you come from and for how long you are intended to stay in the foreign country where you are going and it is issued by the embassy of the country you want to go. A working visa is a visa that says you are permitted to work in this country. That is, you cannot work in the foreign country if your visa doesn't say you are permitted to. Of course you can get one, but you need to contact the British embassy for an appointment to apply for a visa. You will be subjected to an interview and you are supposed to have your visa within about 2 weeks. It is illegal to stay in a country without a visa, except if this country has signed a special agreement with yours.

Christina Z

Unless you have a college degree, you will not be able to get a work visa to the UK. If you're in the United States, I highly doubt the stories of the Irish and Israeli girls, as the United States does not grant work visas to work in kiosks or malls. It simply doesn't work that way. To get a work visa, you need, like the Israeli girl told you, a job willing to sponsor you for a visa. But this job usually has to require a minimum of a Bachelors degree in order to qualify, or it has to be a job like nursing, where there is often a severe shortage of workers. My suggestion to you if you want to go to the UK is to get a student visa, then a Bachelor's degree. You'll get a year after your graduation to work in the UK, making it MUCH easier to find a job that can sponsor you for a work visa. If you're not American, the UK may have what's called a working holiday visa. I know Australia does, which allows you to go to Australia and work for one year, if you're from certain countries. If the UK has something similar, it might be worth looking into, but the US does not have a working holiday visa agreement with the UK.

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