Would a law firm sponsor a work visa?

happymomof1
Thu, 15 May 2014 00:04:26 +0000

“So would it make more sense to go to college as well in the US? That way, I’d be able to gain citizenship?”

You have a very deep confusion about the steps toward citizenship in the US. Spend some time reading through the information at http://www.uscis.gov/

If your goal is to work in the US, your best bet would be to complete your legal studies in your home country, then get a job with a large firm that has offices here, and eventually get that firm to send you here to work.

If your goal is citizenship (and you don’t have a US citizen adult sibling, parent, or grandparent) the most direct route would be to marry a US citizen thus qualifying for legal permanent resident status, and to apply for citizenship after 3 years in that status.

The student visa to H1B (work visa) to legal permanent resident to citizen route has many, many bumps along the way. The only people I have ever heard of who did find an H1B sponsor with only an undergrad degree were in engineers or computer scientists. The people I have known who found H1B sponsors with only a Masters degree were also engineers or computer scientists. I have known many others who found H1B sponsors after completing a PhD and working for multiple years in their field of study. Even if you do manage to find an H1B sponsor, that does not automatically lead to permanent residence status, and permanent residence status does not automatically lead to citizenship.

I your goal is to get out of your home country, and make a new life anywhere, look at Canada and Australia. Both of those countries have less complicated immigration policies than the US does.