Hi. Can you get a tourist visa to visit the USA. Then when you arrive here, apply for a job. And then once you've gotten a job can you apply for an extension on your visa so that eventually you could work towards receiving a green card? Is that allowed?
2007-12-06 13:44:48 · 5 answers · asked by Travel Bug 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
What you propose would be called "circumvention" of the orderly process for obtaining an immigrant visa. If you apply for a job after entering the U.S. as a visitor, there can be a presumption of fraud in either or both the application for the visa and the application for admission.
Do you think you could obtain a visitor visa if you explained in detail this plan to the visa officer? If your answer is "no," then you're fully aware that you would be attempting to obtain your visitor visa by false & misleading statements.
A visitor visa isn't a catch-all classification for those who would come to the U.S. for any purpose whatsoever. It's designed for temporary visits, not to establish residence.
What you are thinking about is more like a scheme (a secret or devious plan; a plot) than an honest effort to be legally employed in the U.S.
2007-12-06 14:14:28 · answer #1 · answered by Fred S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The USA has two classes of people arriving - Immigrant and Non-Immigrant. (Citizens can live anywhere they want, so this is moot.) When you arrive, you're presumed to be an immigrant unless you can satisfy the Immigration Inspector that you're a bona fide non-immigrant. If you arrive with a tourist visa, that's a "non-immigrant" visa. If you say that you're going to be visiting but have an ulterior motive (live and work) then you're making a false statement to a federal officer.
If, during the visit, a job comes available, you can apply for a change of status from non-immigrant to one of several immigrant categories.
However, there's another hurdle- you need a valid Social Security Number to go to work. When you apply for an account, you have to demonstrate that you have the right to live and work in the USA. A tourist visa is insufficient.
If someone hires you without asking for your SSA account, he's breaking the law himself. Keep this in scope- if you mow someone's lawn for $20, that's hardly a "job." But if you take a job with a company that pays you regularly in US Dollars, that's a job and the above applies.
2007-12-06 14:56:11 · answer #2 · answered by going_for_baroque 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you come to the United States on a tourist visa you cannot legally work. However, if you do find a job illegally, you can then get you boss to sponsor you if he can prove that he can't get anyone else to do your job for the amount of money he is paying you. This is usually a very long drawn out process that can last over 10 years.
2007-12-06 13:57:04 · answer #3 · answered by xsylwunia 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This would be called visa fraud. Not a good idea if you really want to live and work here legally.
The legal way to do it is to stay in your own country, find a US employer who can prove there are no qualified Americans to take the job and who is willing to sponsor you for a visa.
2007-12-06 14:26:55 · answer #4 · answered by freebird 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-13 22:30:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋