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I seem to recall there's little chance as there's only a small amount available each year? Frustrating as my husband is top of his game in his career but over in the US, his "licence" doesn't equate to anything without some very big additional exams and costs. Maybe the logistics as well would just be too much, we have 5 neddies and one is a mare so that's a long, expensive and difficult move I'm told. I'll have to just settle being a Yorkshire Cowgirl I think :)
 
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Isn't it interesting that a foreign country can seem more like home than your own. I suppose some places just feel right, like you fit in there.
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Yep. The feeling of home when I'm in the UK is quite remarkable. I've never felt I belonged here, with the endless hot weather that sucks the life out of me and fields of brown rather than green.
 
Ruby's Mum said:
I seem to recall there's little chance as there's only a small amount available each year? Frustrating as my husband is top of his game in his career but over in the US, his "licence" doesn't equate to anything without some very big additional exams and costs. Maybe the logistics as well would just be too much, we have 5 neddies and one is a mare so that's a long, expensive and difficult move I'm told. I'll have to just settle being a Yorkshire Cowgirl I think :)
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The lottery (officially, it's a "diversity immigrant visa" programme) seems to have quotas for different countries. Application for the programme is free of charge.

Some countries are excluded (the UK is one of them), because of having already contributed a high number of immigrants..

Section 203(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) provides for a class of immigrants known as “diversity immigrants,” from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States. A limited number of visas are available each fiscal year. The DVs are distributed among six geographic regions and no single country may receive more than seven percent of the available DVs in any one year.
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Statistics of successful applications for 2013 are available on-line here, and other statistics are available from the State Department, but I've not found the percentage of successful applications, there, yet.

If you're really intent on trying to get an immigrant visa through the diversity programme, one way of increasing your chances is to first of all become a citizen of a country with a higher success rate. For example, Belgians and Armenians have success rates barely above 1%, Austrians and Croatians had around a 1.3% chance, Trinidadians a 0.95% chance...

In all cases, probability seems low, but if it's free of charge to apply, why not go for it?

If you get it, though, you really need to take it up. If you have a Green Card and don't use it, it can be cancelled.

As for employment, different states have different licensing rules for varying numbers of professions. I think that interior designers and hairdressers need a state license in Florida. Because, imagine the horror of an unlicensed person choosing the shade of green for your cushions! :eek:
 
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Pays de la Loire, which is where we live.

A micro-climate not too hot not too cold, apart from a few weeks of the year. The horsey centre, Cadre Noir, Saumur and Lion D'Angers are 1 hour and 40mins. Good food, good wine, lots of competitions all summer long.

Only 3 hours from the channel ports, so you can visit your family or do your Waitress shop for those essentials which cost a lot in France, good English tea, marmite, mustard etc. forgot the Bisto, which French people like??
 
Keith_beef loving it thank you! Hillarious post and some useful points. perhaps I should write to Trump, asking personally to become a citizen, probably about as much chance of us getting in that way! :)
 
Portugal! Lived here for 4 years and would never enjoy my horses as much if I were back in the UK now. Mild winter (although a wetter than average one this year! Atleast the rainsheets get some use :D and we'll have a bumper hay crop this year!) Hot dry summer, but not unbearable and horses cope with the heat well. Flies are manageable, my grey lusitana (mare) wears fly socks and mask as her legs can get bitten to shreds, but my chestnut luso/arab gelding is turned out with nothing and he doesn't suffer with the flies at all! Beaches and cliffs all within a 30 minute riding distance.....

The only complaint is the lack of horsey shops! We have decathlon for your cheap bits here and there, and a local stables have recently opened up a tack shop but otherwise everything else I order online in the UK and have shipped over
 
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