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Hi all, I'm new to all of this but I wanted to post something to see if I get any helpful feedback.

I live in the US and I really want to movie to England when I'm older.  I'm in my last year of high school and I was wanting to know if there is any information that I can look at that will help me prepare for a possible move.  Any comments or helpful hints or advice would be much appreciated!

Thanks Much!

Hi and welcome!  there are many opportunities to come and live and work in the UK in the short and longer term.  If you plan to go to university, many schools have study abroad programmes in the UK (usually scotland and London, but there are others).  Also, you can get a Bunac visa ( www.bunac.com ) that will enable you to come and work for up to 6 months.  You can also look into becoming an au pair after high school and work as a nanny with a family for a year.

If you want to come and live and work permanently there are a few options available:
1. get sponsored by an employer to work and live here (difficult to find a job from there to sponsor you, but not impossible)

2. come through an ancestoral visa --so someone in your family being a british citizen

3. come on a fiance or marriage visa to a brit or other EU citizen.

I am sure others will give you more details on types of ways of coming over.

Welcome
Kat

Hey Chandler...and thanks for stopping by.  There are tons of possibilities for going to the UK and you are at a great age to take advantage of them!

Do you have a UK passport or or you looking to perhaps study over there?  A lot of the advice we can give depends on knowing more about your particular situation.  Have a read over some of the other sections of the site and if you don't see an answer to your questions go ahead and post your own!

Again ,a hearty welcome!

Hi - welcome to UKY!
Nothing more to add here - just another hello! Read through the boards - you will find a ton of info and insight!
Melissa

Hi Chandler, Welcome to UKY!  Look forward to more of your posts. As far as coming to the UK,  this is a good place to start getting ideas of how to make that happen

 Hiya Chandler and welcome to UKY.As others have said there is plenty info here for you to sort through,and you will find that we are a very supportive community as well  

Rhia

Hi Chandler!  Welcome to UKYankee.  Have you visited the UK yet?  Do you have a place in mind?  Did you take english in school?  heheheh sorry just kidding.  Anyway welcome.

Hi Chandler...welcome to UKY.

Hi Chandler welcome aboard. You might be able to get on some kind of student exchange scheme to study over here for a while. A friend of mine from Virginia was able to do a semester over here while she was at college that way. Someone else also mentioned Bunac - that is probably a good place for you to start with finding out what you need to know.

Good luck and maybe we'll see you over here in the not too distant future

Liz

Hiya Chandler

First of all nice name ---is it your first or your last? You could say my entire family is attached to it lol.

Anyway, good for you in making the choice right now to start planning your immigration to the UK. In this regard the early bird really does get the worm---are you thinking of planning to come over here to work or study? I heard that applying to UK schools as an American undergraduate is difficult; but going on some sort of exchange wouldn't be at all.

Two websites you might be interested are hosted by BUNAC and the British Council---I especially like the latter.

cheers,

Samantha***