Moving to the US with my wife
Hi everyone, posting this again! I’m married to a US Citizen (she’ve never lived there permanently, only visited as a tourist). We both have good jobs in our country and never really thought about moving to the US, but recently we’ve begun considering this scenario more and more. We’re in our early twenties.
It will be a I-130 Form, I guess.
She has brothers in Connecticut and Florida, but I’m not really keen on moving to these states – Connecticut seems too expensive (and it might be tough or even impossible to buy a house eventually) and Florida is just too hot for us. So we’d like to settle down in the Midwest, specifically in Wisconsin (like Appleton, the Fox Cities, Oshkosh, Sheboygan etc). I heard there are a plenty of solid jobs and ‘real economy’ there. Anyway, it’s not a final decision yet.
The main challenge is that, even though I have Bachelor’s and Master’s degree (which work fine in my country), they’re gonna be useless in the US. So I’d like to go to community college and retrain for a practical, in-demand field. My wife might do the same, but she’s an English native speaker and also has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree, hence she has a bit more options.
What do you think of this plan? Is it a reasonable one, will it work? We have some savings and, I suppose, by the end of the immigration procedure it will be a decent amount to start our new life in America.