I'm a 30 year old UK citizen, currently doing a part-time data science job for a major UK bank while studying for a Master's Degree in Cambridge. Between age 21-28 I was doing marketing as my undergrad was Psychology.

I want to pivot my data science job into a machine learning role. I have a very strong CV (90%+ in all public exams, first at university, etc.).

I want to move to the US in 2-3 years - New York specifically. Salaries are much higher (2-3x higher in some cases), I'm more aligned with the culture, and I love the city.

How hard would this be to accomplish? Some research gives two answers:
>Very easy, just apply for an internal transfer!
>Very hard, don't even bother - single digit percentage chance

Working for a US company involves more humiliation rituals, micro management and people caring about the most asinine shit and having your job hinge on it. You won't be able to just "exist".

They also prefer H1B indians than whites, so good luck with that.

>>33366236
I think I'll be able to get an L-1 visa via an internal transfer, so I can avoid the H1B route.

>>33366236
>orking for a US company involves more humiliation rituals, micro management and people caring about the most asinine shit and having your job hinge on it.
He's from England, we are very familiar with humiliation rituals and nanny-ing from corporations

>>33366240
Yes - this should be straightforward if you think your company would offer this. It would require working for said company for at least a year though, as I recall.
Also, if you have a spouse (legally married), they can come in on an L-2 visa really quickly.

>>33366091 (OP)
A dew minutes on the US immigration website would have told you this.

A basic visitor's visa - the stamp you get at the airport - has strict time limits and forbids working.
A work visa requires rhe solid offer of a job from a US employer, accompanied by evidence they couldn't find a US citizen capable of doing the job.

It's that last step that's hte bitch. People at the top of their profession or with unique skills can do it. Beginners have a lot of trouble.

>>33366091 (OP)
very hard, especially in the current climate with our president trying to restrict all immigration, even legal immigration from friendly countries. Having a degree from an elite school like Cambridge definitely makes you marketable, but it still will not be easy to find an employer to hire you and willing to jump through all the hurdles to get you a visa.

The "immigration is easy, just apply for internal transfer" really only exists for high level employees, since companies can easily get visas for their managers, but not for line employees.

>>33367193
>are you skilled
>yes
>do you have a college degree
>doesn't even split to a "you're out of luck"

i'm so glad I didn't go to uni but the one reason being a ticket out of this dystopian shithole is jarring

>>33366091 (OP)
My parents are euro immigrants, and I unironically support very little to no immigration. Way too much anti-Americanism has come out of the more recent waves of immigrants, job opportunities are already limited for U.S. citizens, housing is climbing up due to increasing population, etc. I don’t want European problems coming here

We need to stop pretending all immigrants are the same. Some cultures are simply incompadable

>>33367645
>i'm so glad I didn't go to uni
why? I really enjoyed my time in uni. I learned a lot of interesting things, wrote papers I was proud of, and felt a sense of accomplishment. I don't regret my history degree at all. It also enabled me to get a good civil service job and later to go to law school and make a lot of money.

>>33368189
>incompadable
I know it's a meme to say "you made a typo therefore your argument is invalid" but in this case I think it fits.

>>33368498
dealing with normalfags, dealing with politics on campus, having no financial independence, and not least, debt. i mean if you went to a good one and did a good subject then fair play - civil service being government is good for job security. but i avoided uni and did a traineeship at a financial services company and since then have worked in london for 7 years while having a decent flat on the outskirts all to myself. so not having the same woes as all the normies. meanwhile there are graduates who can't get jobs.

>>33368564
Going to Uni is really not what you think it is. The dealing with normalfags and politics on campus are things that are entirely avoidable if you choose to avoid them. Just go to class, do your work, spend time with your professors during office hours, and spend time in the library or your room reading. You don't need to engage with clubs or the "school culture" if you don't want to. As for the debt, I will never understand this extreme aversion I often see from people on this site towards debt. All the richest people in the world owe billions of dollars, often at far worse terms than student debt. You have to spend money to make money, so why not spend the bank's money instead? Getting an education is so much more valuable than mere money. It's something that can never be taken away from you. To say nothing of how much it has financially benefited me.

>>33366091 (OP)
Why the fuck would you want to move to tank land? Australia would be a much better option.

>>33368564
>dealing with normalfags, dealing with politics on campus
Generally avoidable things at uni. This is not the case for the workplace however.
>having no financial independence
Ha! Poor!
>debt
Its not that peak.

>>33367193
> illustrated by Terry Colon
Wow, I thought I recognized that art style. He worked on suck.com [0] back in the 1990s. What a blast from the past!
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suck.com