A few questions - Immigration based on Employment

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Sonja

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Hello,

I\'m doing some research on my wish to move to the United States once I\'m done with my apprenticeship in Austria, but the dry reading just isn\'t answering all my questions... and when I go and ask somebody I keep on getting different answers, especially concerning my education.

And here goes my first question.

I finished school and am currently working as an \'apprentice\' in a big company in Austria. The apprenticeship lasts for 3 and a half year and I will be done with it next February (2003). There are 10 weeks of school in each year and 5 weeks in the last half. But the rest of it I\'m working and being paid.

I would love to go to the States after my apprenticeship is done - which would be either in May or June, depending on when I will be scheduled for the last test.

My question is now.. does an apprenticeship of that kind count as working experience?
And if not.. how are the chances that I will be allowed to obtain a Labor Certificate? Or are there none at all?

I would appreciate any kind of help...

  Sonja, from Austria
 
Hm... good news or bad news?

Thank you for you answer, now I now much more than before.

Which makes me see that I\'m in a dilemma.

For 2 years now I have a long distance relationship with an American who lives in Illinois, thus if I move to the states I would like to move to the city he lives in. So we two can get to know each other better. There\'s no option of marriage, because this would just be foolish. We don\'t know each other well enough to decide about THAT.

My company DOES have an office in the States tho. But its too far away to serve me any good... but I would take this option if nothing else is available for me.

And that\'s just what I want to find out.

Sometimes I hear that getting a job shouldn\'t be hard for me - on the next day I hear I can\'t because I don\'t have enough experience.

All the reading I do on the immigration web pages doesn\'t help me much either and I would like to talk to someone who may be able to help me a little.

If anyone has any more hints and tips for me I would be very, very, very thankful.

  Sonja
 
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