I just looked this up, because I was curious, and found the information from relevant Lithuanian government authorities in about thirty seconds.
Looks like turnaround is quick (c 15 days each for the work permit and visa) and acceptance rates are high, but as with other EU countries, the work permit has to be officially requested on your behalf by an employer because you are not an EU national. So the process can’t start in earnest until you already have a job offer, but appears to take not much more than a month on paper.
Like everybody else in the EU, Lithuania doesn’t offer unemployed Americans generic “work visas” that will apply to any job. They give you a work permit and relevant visa once someone already wants to hire you.
>but they'd prefer an American if anything
Why, you have the same skills as Keij from Ukraine. Oh you speak english? okay so does he. Oh you want a hire wage? Okay he doesn't.
Who gives a shit if your visa sponsorship costs that of a years pay? they can hand it off to a refugee or craig down the street and still come out ahead. Yeah I'm sure they would love your pol resume of posts explaining how being white vs. someone who probably speaks some neighboring states language or multilingual would be of use.
Your best bet is getting an H2B visa or work sponsor into Canada, but without any skillsets you'd just be fucked anyways. Go sign up for the military retard
7 months ago
Anonymous
>into Canada
the fuck is the point of that
7 months ago
Anonymous
If Canada is too "EW" for you, as it is probably the easiest country to relocate to as a US citizen, you'll never get to europe.
7 months ago
Anonymous
It's actually quite hard to immigrate between us and canada, almost impossible. As hard as it is for anywhere else.
7 months ago
Anonymous
You sound like you're speaking from superfluous personal opinion than actual objective experience
7 months ago
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I know how foreign Visa shit works, and actually just got back working abroad for a bit. OP has a less than 0 chance to get into Europe with no skills to show, no employment, and nothing over that of an average citizen. Wow he's white and speaks english, bunch of others in europe do and live there. Why bother sponsoring a US citizen to come over when someone down the street can do unskilled labor as well starting tomorrow over OP?
OP couldn't bother looking up basic google-able shit or post any useful info. He's day dreaming just like the "leaving the west general" doomers, not a sighsee thread go try
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7 months ago
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>You sound like you're speaking from superfluous personal opinion than actual objective experience
I’m not sure you used either “superfluous” (to what, exactly?) or “objective” correctly here (surely experience is inherently subjective?) but I have direct experience with European visa issues (American with permanent residence in Europe), and his basic facts are all correct enough.
Employers in European countries (especially but not only EU countries) hire European candidates before anyone for whom they would need to sponsor a visa, regardless of what they look like or where they come from. It’s cheaper and easier for the employer. To get imported into Europe to work you essentially need to be able to do something there are no locals available to do (and “locals” means anyone from the EU or EFTA, so there are millions of people ahead of Americans in line). There’s never going to be a reason a local can’t do unskilled labor. Or a Ukrainian—virtually all Ukrainian refugees in Europe have already been granted temporary legal residence and the right to work, so employers don’t have to deal with it the way they would with a Yank.
>And of course some of the Ukies who have made it out are actually skilled; my wife just hired someone to do data analysis.
7 months ago
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>hire Ukrainian >get drunk on vodka all day >don't work because muh country >steals from you >probably can't speak english >probably rapes your wife >probably will leave in a few weeks without saying anything
or >hire US citizen with an actual education >will work hard to stay because home country if fucked >knows English natively >can be a handy man as needed >white values to bring into the country of question >turstworthy, honest, and can leave their hands off your wife
Yeah pretty sure it's much better to hire an american, but this place is just so detached from what happens in the real world. The delusion of this place is astounding I'm sure your wife "hired" him for data ANALysis and nothing else nope.. Not a thing as you type this on sighsee.
7 months ago
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>Yeah pretty sure it's much better to hire an american, but this place is just so detached from what happens in the real world. The delusion of this place is astounding I'm sure your wife "hired" him for data ANALysis and nothing else nope.. Not a thing as you type this on sighsee.
This is really amusing to read. But I’ll admit that the person she hired (a woman and not as far as I know a rapist or an alcoholic) was more than a little unusual for a Ukie refugee, because she’s technically an internal transfer who’d worked for her firm’s small Ukrainian subsidiary, albeit in a different capacity. And she’s highly educated (trained as an MD) and speaks better English than at least half of my wife’s Western Euro colleagues. She has hired Americans, too, but most of them elect to remain in the US office, where, among other things, the pay is often slightly better. I think almost half of her large team is in the States at the moment. The fact that it’s far cheaper to hire people from closer at hand (our own relo package from CA cost the company a really surprising amount of money) is relatively low on her list of criteria.
If OP is a doctor looking for international medical research work in Europe, I feel confident that he will eventually find it. But as an unskilled laborer or tradesman with widely available technical skills his odds aren’t as good.
7 months ago
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The real sticking point is nobody wants to do a visa sponsor because its a hassle and you have to convince the government that you need to hire a foreigner because there aren't locals who can do the job which isn't always possible.
7 months ago
Anonymous
this is bull shit all the delivery drivers here are indian
7 months ago
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>this is bull shit all the delivery drivers here are indian
And they’re either on visas they got through family members who own shops, or they’re just working illegally. An Indian restaurant here just got busted because all its employees were Nepalis working on tourist and student visas.
Nobody has ever had his legal immigration authorized by Uber Eats.
7 months ago
Anonymous
The sign is a subtle joke. The shop is called "Sneed's Feed & Seed", where feed and seed both end in the sound "-eed", thus rhyming with the name of the owner, Sneed. The sign says that the shop was "Formerly Chuck's", implying that the two words beginning with "F" and "S" would have ended with "-uck", rhyming with "Chuck". So, when Chuck owned the shop, it would have been called "Chuck's Fuck and Suck".
> Do you think it's more or less likely for unskilled labor
I have literally never heard of an American who was not already eligible to live in the EU getting a legal unskilled labor job in Europe. There are hundreds of thousands of unemployed unskilled Europeans that can do it without a need for a visa.
You might be able to get something under the table. But you won’t be legal and may eventually get deported.
>found a visa facilitator company >told them what type of visa i wanted >paid the fee and filled out some papers
it was that easy to get a 1 year multi-entry business visa for vietnam, but that was before covid not sure if its changed since.
I can never get a work visa because I quit uni. So I got a student visa and worked anyway, worked on tourist visa, and got dual citizenship to avoid needing a visa altogether. The system is rigged against you, so cheat.
>and got dual citizenship to avoid needing a visa altogether
Which country was this, exactly Presumably you were already entitled to this dual citizenship, rather than somehow naturalizing in a place where you had been living and working illegally.
>not stating your country
>your situation
>destination country
Shit thread.
I just looked this up, because I was curious, and found the information from relevant Lithuanian government authorities in about thirty seconds.
Looks like turnaround is quick (c 15 days each for the work permit and visa) and acceptance rates are high, but as with other EU countries, the work permit has to be officially requested on your behalf by an employer because you are not an EU national. So the process can’t start in earnest until you already have a job offer, but appears to take not much more than a month on paper.
Like everybody else in the EU, Lithuania doesn’t offer unemployed Americans generic “work visas” that will apply to any job. They give you a work permit and relevant visa once someone already wants to hire you.
Do you think it's more or less likely for unskilled labor
bro countries don't want your broke ass unskilled bullshit that a refugee from the ukraine can do.
Somewhat true, unskilled labor isn't necessarily in high demand but they'd prefer an American if anything
>but they'd prefer an American if anything
Why, you have the same skills as Keij from Ukraine. Oh you speak english? okay so does he. Oh you want a hire wage? Okay he doesn't.
For one I'm actually white
And?
Who gives a shit if your visa sponsorship costs that of a years pay? they can hand it off to a refugee or craig down the street and still come out ahead. Yeah I'm sure they would love your pol resume of posts explaining how being white vs. someone who probably speaks some neighboring states language or multilingual would be of use.
Your best bet is getting an H2B visa or work sponsor into Canada, but without any skillsets you'd just be fucked anyways. Go sign up for the military retard
>into Canada
the fuck is the point of that
If Canada is too "EW" for you, as it is probably the easiest country to relocate to as a US citizen, you'll never get to europe.
It's actually quite hard to immigrate between us and canada, almost impossible. As hard as it is for anywhere else.
You sound like you're speaking from superfluous personal opinion than actual objective experience
I know how foreign Visa shit works, and actually just got back working abroad for a bit. OP has a less than 0 chance to get into Europe with no skills to show, no employment, and nothing over that of an average citizen. Wow he's white and speaks english, bunch of others in europe do and live there. Why bother sponsoring a US citizen to come over when someone down the street can do unskilled labor as well starting tomorrow over OP?
OP couldn't bother looking up basic google-able shit or post any useful info. He's day dreaming just like the "leaving the west general" doomers, not a sighsee thread go try
>You sound like you're speaking from superfluous personal opinion than actual objective experience
I’m not sure you used either “superfluous” (to what, exactly?) or “objective” correctly here (surely experience is inherently subjective?) but I have direct experience with European visa issues (American with permanent residence in Europe), and his basic facts are all correct enough.
Employers in European countries (especially but not only EU countries) hire European candidates before anyone for whom they would need to sponsor a visa, regardless of what they look like or where they come from. It’s cheaper and easier for the employer. To get imported into Europe to work you essentially need to be able to do something there are no locals available to do (and “locals” means anyone from the EU or EFTA, so there are millions of people ahead of Americans in line). There’s never going to be a reason a local can’t do unskilled labor. Or a Ukrainian—virtually all Ukrainian refugees in Europe have already been granted temporary legal residence and the right to work, so employers don’t have to deal with it the way they would with a Yank.
>And of course some of the Ukies who have made it out are actually skilled; my wife just hired someone to do data analysis.
>hire Ukrainian
>get drunk on vodka all day
>don't work because muh country
>steals from you
>probably can't speak english
>probably rapes your wife
>probably will leave in a few weeks without saying anything
or
>hire US citizen with an actual education
>will work hard to stay because home country if fucked
>knows English natively
>can be a handy man as needed
>white values to bring into the country of question
>turstworthy, honest, and can leave their hands off your wife
Yeah pretty sure it's much better to hire an american, but this place is just so detached from what happens in the real world. The delusion of this place is astounding I'm sure your wife "hired" him for data ANALysis and nothing else nope.. Not a thing as you type this on sighsee.
>Yeah pretty sure it's much better to hire an american, but this place is just so detached from what happens in the real world. The delusion of this place is astounding I'm sure your wife "hired" him for data ANALysis and nothing else nope.. Not a thing as you type this on sighsee.
This is really amusing to read. But I’ll admit that the person she hired (a woman and not as far as I know a rapist or an alcoholic) was more than a little unusual for a Ukie refugee, because she’s technically an internal transfer who’d worked for her firm’s small Ukrainian subsidiary, albeit in a different capacity. And she’s highly educated (trained as an MD) and speaks better English than at least half of my wife’s Western Euro colleagues. She has hired Americans, too, but most of them elect to remain in the US office, where, among other things, the pay is often slightly better. I think almost half of her large team is in the States at the moment. The fact that it’s far cheaper to hire people from closer at hand (our own relo package from CA cost the company a really surprising amount of money) is relatively low on her list of criteria.
If OP is a doctor looking for international medical research work in Europe, I feel confident that he will eventually find it. But as an unskilled laborer or tradesman with widely available technical skills his odds aren’t as good.
The real sticking point is nobody wants to do a visa sponsor because its a hassle and you have to convince the government that you need to hire a foreigner because there aren't locals who can do the job which isn't always possible.
this is bull shit all the delivery drivers here are indian
>this is bull shit all the delivery drivers here are indian
And they’re either on visas they got through family members who own shops, or they’re just working illegally. An Indian restaurant here just got busted because all its employees were Nepalis working on tourist and student visas.
Nobody has ever had his legal immigration authorized by Uber Eats.
The sign is a subtle joke. The shop is called "Sneed's Feed & Seed", where feed and seed both end in the sound "-eed", thus rhyming with the name of the owner, Sneed. The sign says that the shop was "Formerly Chuck's", implying that the two words beginning with "F" and "S" would have ended with "-uck", rhyming with "Chuck". So, when Chuck owned the shop, it would have been called "Chuck's Fuck and Suck".
> Do you think it's more or less likely for unskilled labor
I have literally never heard of an American who was not already eligible to live in the EU getting a legal unskilled labor job in Europe. There are hundreds of thousands of unemployed unskilled Europeans that can do it without a need for a visa.
You might be able to get something under the table. But you won’t be legal and may eventually get deported.
>found a visa facilitator company
>told them what type of visa i wanted
>paid the fee and filled out some papers
it was that easy to get a 1 year multi-entry business visa for vietnam, but that was before covid not sure if its changed since.
I can never get a work visa because I quit uni. So I got a student visa and worked anyway, worked on tourist visa, and got dual citizenship to avoid needing a visa altogether. The system is rigged against you, so cheat.
>and got dual citizenship to avoid needing a visa altogether
Which country was this, exactly Presumably you were already entitled to this dual citizenship, rather than somehow naturalizing in a place where you had been living and working illegally.
I moved to another EEA country so I automatically had the right to work here.
How difficult is it for a Canadian to get a work visa in the USA? It's an emergency situation and I'd be willing to take almost any work.
Look up the H2B process