Teachers and the USA

[martinr1982]

Hi,

I've been trawling the board to see if this has already been posted but I can't see so here goes.

My wife and I would love to move to the USA, a feet which is easier said than done as far as I can see. We are both teachers with a few years experience under our belts and both have non-teaching undergrad degrees. My wife is a primary school teacher and I am an FE Lecturer. I teach a variety of things including: law, criminology, criminal justice, ICT, English, and a bit of Business Studies. I wondered if anyone has any experience of actually managing the move? As I understand it there are H1-B VISA applications for international schools or even the o1 VISA but there is little information about what extraordinary means. Obviously to teach in US schools we would need to convert out qualifications but I've no idea how to do that and it would appear its a chicken and egg scenario, cant get a VISA without being in the US and cant stay in the US without a VISA.

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated

[georgecombey]

Hi there,

From which country you from if I may ask?

[martinr1982]

We are in the UK, I'm guessing the best way is to look at international schools that teach English curriculum for a start then move to update our qualifications but any advice would be appreciated