I am a 16 year old girl living in Alberta, Canada and am looking to moving to Chicago when I am older... But the problem is.. I don't know if they will give me a visa because I live in Canada. I am looking at becoming a teacher or something in the education field. I probably will not be attending post secondary there.
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Apply for I-94 student visa, and it should be valid throughout your higher education if you would like to attend college in the US. After that period of time which is usually 4 to 6 years, you can apply for permanent residency which begins with obtaining work authorization, and after about another 2 to 4 years you will be a permenant US Resident (not a citizen) and able to work and pay US taxes, still unable to vote though, one drawback would be that you may still be required to pay taxes in your own country as well, I'm not really sure what Canada's policy is on their citizens living abroad.
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Get a college degree in Social Work or Counseling. Canadian Citizens can easily get a work visa in the US under the NAFTA regulations (TN Visa) as long as they work in certain fields including Social Work and Job Counseling. Once you get your degree, you should be able to find an employer in either of those two areas fairly easily and then the employer can sponsor you for your TN Visa which is very cheap and easy to obtain compared to other visas. For listing of the jobs and the degrees necessary for the TN visa, go here: http://www.nafta-sec-alena.org/DefaultSite/index_e.aspx?DetailID=167#Ap1603.D.1
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An I-94 is a departure record card, not a student visa. The only easy way to work in the USA is if you have one of the degrees that qualifies for a TN visa. (Look "TN visa" up on the internet). If you do not have a degree in one of those fields it is very difficult, next to impossible.
