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Assuming that OP has no EU citizenship I imagine it would be very, very difficult to obtain a (work) visa with a a US criminal record. Showing that you have no
by DrJokepu 13y ago
Assuming that OP has no EU citizenship I imagine it would be very, very difficult to obtain a (work) visa with a a US criminal record. Showing that you have no criminal record in any of the countries you have lived in the last X years is a standard part of visa applications anywhere.
- deftnerd 13y agoI have come to the same conclusion with my own research. My best hope for being in the EU is if my wife gets a work visa and I just travel there as a spouse on a residents visa and don't have official employment there. This might be an option if all of my work is done online, but it does skirt the intentions of the law and I don't like doing that for moral reasons.
- jtheory 13y agoYeah, that still sounds like exactly the same difficulties (the online work would likely involve a background check too, right?) plus a huge pile of new difficulties. If you'd still be earning in dollars, especially, cost of living in much of Europe would be really rough. You might get work permission yourself after half a decade or so of residency (that's how it worked for me), but I still don't see that it would necessarily help. Wouldn't application forms still ask about your criminal history? I guess you'd be freer to lie on those forms without being found out, but that's an incredibly weak reason to move to another country.