Partner might not need extra permission to work from home!
If you recall this post: http://wanderingresearcher.com/2018/05/22/new-this-round-spouse-needs-approval-to-work-as-well/ – I talked about how your partner would need to get extra approval to work from home in the US, even if he/she does not receive any kind of salary in the US. One of the partners of a Fulbrighter has checked this and was informed that he/she did NOT need to apply. Therefore, you should check first! The following message on this “teleworking” issue was given us from the US embassy via Fulbright: It has always been our advice to recommend that applicants contact USCIS once in the United States regarding any questions they have about working or teleworking. USCIS has an instant chat…
New this round – spouse needs approval to work as well
So – my husband is going to join us in Houston, Texas in December – choosing to stay home to work a bit longer on ongoing projects until then – but will work in Houston when he gets there – on projects that his work in Norway will still be paying him for. What he needs, however, is apparently permission to keep working in the US for his Norwegian company where he works now – even though he is still going to be paid by Norway, pay taxes to Norway and for all purposes, still be a Norwegian employee. Furhtermore, he is also going to be on the J2 visa…
Phuh – finally see the light at the end of the tunnel
Thank God for Fulbright. In all honesty, I really dont know how other people without the resources of Fulbright in the back are able to do this… The beautiful people of Fulbright have now filled in my DS 2019 – Certificate of Eligibility for Exchange Visitor Status (J-Non Immigrant), and given med “hold my hand” instructions on how to fill in the DS 160 (which I can not even remember having filled out last time around – but I surely must have – and have proof of when I searched my own website for DS 160). I can see that even then, I was confused about the photos – and…
Our VISAS are here!!!
We are so set to go – our visas have now arrived!!!
Fulbright grantee Award Seremony
On the 8th of June 2011, Arild and I went to Oslo to parttake in the Award Seremony for Fulbright Grantees 2011 🙂 We got in early – at 7 am – and went to a cafe and just hung out having coffee, chatting for a couple of hours while we waited for our Visa Interview at the US embassy at 10. We went to the Fulbright office first with our stuff, and then joined the CRAZY line in front of the embassy, where we stood for almost two hours waiting to get in! Luckily, we were joined by a lovely couple from Skien that were going to the US…
Tax and Social Security taken care of!
The letters have been copied, signed and sent so now all I have left to do is my VISA application – the DS-160 (non-immigrant visa application) https://ceac.state.gov/genniv/ – that I started yesterday. The pictures are a mess – pretty difficult even for me to figure out what they really want – so this afternoon when I get home I will have a photoshoot with Arild and the kids (not the oldest since he already is a US citizen) and finish off the application process! I am also waiting for money from my scholarship so that I can pay the deposit on the house and pay for the soccer club as…
Finished the Fulbright paperwork!
Fulbright now has my complciated medical history, complete with vaccines and syphilis test (!) – I had to retake the DTP vaccine but luckily there were records of my MMR history on file! Now I need to fill out the DS-160 before the visa interview at the Embassy in Oslo on June 8th (where only Arild and I need to be, luckily – not the kids – though they each need a form filled out as well). This DS-160 is apparatly very large – and I have not started it yet – but I will asap!
Trying to get a visa for our au pair now…
OK – so I now know, through Fulbright (who is taking care of our visas – thank God) that in order for us to bring Hoan – our au pair – with us to the US to take care of Bellami, we need to apply for a BI-visa – which is a “Domestic Employee Visa”… This blog talks a little about it: http://www.ctrlegal.com/general-us-legal-news/maid-nanny-visa/ as does a general google search for B1 visa nanny. I have searched like crazy, and I have no filled out several “contact me” forms to both lawyers and embassies in Norway, US and Vietnam and hope hope hope that some of them will find the solution…
Santa Barbara – imagine that!
After getting my PhD June 17th 2010 and being offered the position as Post Doc, I decided that I did not want to waste any more time – this time I would go live in the US for a year at whatever the cost! I first learned about the Berkeley program that our Department cooperated with in San Fransisco and I really had my heart set on going to San Fransisco for a year. I contacted several professors, but none replied. I also applied for an office space from our department, but was not awarded the spot to my big dismay. I was really getting worried.. In the end I…
