HI
I won!! finally.. 10 years or so of trying!
only now i just got a job of a life time, and the salary is 300k! USD!!!
in the US, id be lucky to make 70k (and i dont have a degree) ...
I want badly to move to the US but i want/need to make as much as i can
in this job before i go... a few reasons, im paying for a ill family members medical treatments and some i wont bore you with..
i can think of a few scenarios - give me your thots?
1. send wife and child to usa, buy a home, continue to work in europe
and ''commute'' home every 2/3 months for a week at a time (we get 5 weeks holidays a year.. (SORRY!)
2. i buy a place, get cable tv (i already own a usa mobile), etc (show active bills / active life is 'starting up') and continue to pay USA taxes (it will amount to a lot of money as any earners over 80k usd, pay TWO lots of tax im told (vs less than 80k, where you pay only if the country ur paying tax in, somehow wanted less than the equiv state/federal taxes..) -
= which shows
i have a purpose and intention to return
i am contributing to the system and how!
3. i wait till 11months of the first year of gc activation , we go over, buy a place, take 5 weeks annual leave, and during that time, log a request for re-entry permit (which grants a two year extention if i read that right)
((all up scenario 3 -- would buy us ''three'' years))
i would like to think that will be enough, if i save 100k a year, thats a home!
(im broke at the moment - its a new job)
(its an IT Manager job for those that are curious)
is there any scenario above you like best?
could a different scenario (or one above, last for 4-6 years?) - that would be ideal financially speaking but .....pushing it im sure...
((also, could i not remain working here, and rightly say ''id love to move to be with the family RIGHT NOW, IF ONLY i could get the same job/similar pay but with the crisis in the economy, im not even able to get interviews for 70k jobs?)) --> would that, + the fact im paying BOAT LOADS of taxes HELP my case?
i know its not a usual problem..!
its a ''high quality'' problem thats for sure..
on the other hand its NOT always about money
(I know this cuz i worked in london, uk, earning 200,000$ and got a work visa to work at a bank in NYC and accepted a salary of 70,000 - thats a 60% pay cut, because i was dying to live in the states (still am)
anyways, anyone see a way?
can hiring a fancy lawyer be the way? i hate the idea that money talks but maybe this is the only way?
or do i just need to once and for all decide, whats more important>?
ill choose America , start over, work as a waiter at the age of 40 , but my wife and family dont want to move as much as me, and it would strain them more than me to go back to that sort of lifestyle (surfboard, job, food, im good!) - im trying so hard to simply get 200/300 in savings so i can just buy a home and then give up on career, start a small business maybe, and most of all spend hours and hours with the family, surfing with them, playing with them...
maybe its a dream, maybe thats another word for 'retirement'
but By His Grace.. I have got my Greencard after 10_+ years, and I will not
rest until i acheive the dream
thanks for reading , peace out and bless you for your consideration!
(please forgive me for sounding anything proud/etc , the financial details are not to impress anyone, but to simply show that its not so simple to 'pack and move' right away! ((i also didnt want to hijack a similar thread))
I won!! finally.. 10 years or so of trying!
only now i just got a job of a life time, and the salary is 300k! USD!!!
in the US, id be lucky to make 70k (and i dont have a degree) ...
I want badly to move to the US but i want/need to make as much as i can
in this job before i go... a few reasons, im paying for a ill family members medical treatments and some i wont bore you with..
i can think of a few scenarios - give me your thots?
1. send wife and child to usa, buy a home, continue to work in europe
and ''commute'' home every 2/3 months for a week at a time (we get 5 weeks holidays a year.. (SORRY!)
2. i buy a place, get cable tv (i already own a usa mobile), etc (show active bills / active life is 'starting up') and continue to pay USA taxes (it will amount to a lot of money as any earners over 80k usd, pay TWO lots of tax im told (vs less than 80k, where you pay only if the country ur paying tax in, somehow wanted less than the equiv state/federal taxes..) -
= which shows
i have a purpose and intention to return
i am contributing to the system and how!
3. i wait till 11months of the first year of gc activation , we go over, buy a place, take 5 weeks annual leave, and during that time, log a request for re-entry permit (which grants a two year extention if i read that right)
((all up scenario 3 -- would buy us ''three'' years))
i would like to think that will be enough, if i save 100k a year, thats a home!
(im broke at the moment - its a new job)
(its an IT Manager job for those that are curious)
is there any scenario above you like best?
could a different scenario (or one above, last for 4-6 years?) - that would be ideal financially speaking but .....pushing it im sure...
((also, could i not remain working here, and rightly say ''id love to move to be with the family RIGHT NOW, IF ONLY i could get the same job/similar pay but with the crisis in the economy, im not even able to get interviews for 70k jobs?)) --> would that, + the fact im paying BOAT LOADS of taxes HELP my case?
i know its not a usual problem..!
its a ''high quality'' problem thats for sure..
on the other hand its NOT always about money
(I know this cuz i worked in london, uk, earning 200,000$ and got a work visa to work at a bank in NYC and accepted a salary of 70,000 - thats a 60% pay cut, because i was dying to live in the states (still am)
anyways, anyone see a way?
can hiring a fancy lawyer be the way? i hate the idea that money talks but maybe this is the only way?
or do i just need to once and for all decide, whats more important>?
ill choose America , start over, work as a waiter at the age of 40 , but my wife and family dont want to move as much as me, and it would strain them more than me to go back to that sort of lifestyle (surfboard, job, food, im good!) - im trying so hard to simply get 200/300 in savings so i can just buy a home and then give up on career, start a small business maybe, and most of all spend hours and hours with the family, surfing with them, playing with them...
maybe its a dream, maybe thats another word for 'retirement'
but By His Grace.. I have got my Greencard after 10_+ years, and I will not
rest until i acheive the dream
thanks for reading , peace out and bless you for your consideration!
(please forgive me for sounding anything proud/etc , the financial details are not to impress anyone, but to simply show that its not so simple to 'pack and move' right away! ((i also didnt want to hijack a similar thread))