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If you speak good English (either as a native speaker, or have good scores in TOEFL or equivalent), and have qualifications and work experience in an field whic
by myelin 17y ago
If you speak good English (either as a native speaker, or have good scores in TOEFL or equivalent), and have qualifications and work experience in an field which has a short supply of qualified workers (engineering, medicine, software, social work, and plenty of others), New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK have fairly easy paths to permanent residence. (Prove qualifications and experience, fill out forms, pay fees, wait for approval, get permanent resident visa, move.)
Getting a tech job fresh off the plane is pretty unrealistic, but shouldn't be any harder than getting one in the US. (White, native English speaking) immigrants I've met in NZ have done the interview circuit and picked up jobs over the process of a few weeks.
(I'm a New Zealand citizen, currently in the middle of the H-1B process.)
- tokenadult 17y agoThanks for the good level of detail in that reply. My proclivity as an American who lives at about 45 degrees north latitude would be to look for work on New Zealand's South Island if I wanted to move to an English-speaking country, so that helped a lot.