Time flies, and once you’ll try how The States taste, maybe you will need more time to enjoy the experience and learn as much as you can. And it is not in your thoughts the idea of quitting to grow professionally in the company where you have done it for 1 year. So I decided to apply for the O1 Visa.
There are some visas that are very helpful to achieve that purpose, like the H1B (work visa foreign workers with a job offer in a specialty occupation in the US) and O1 Visa (nonimmigrant visa is for the individual who possesses extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics) and, despite how they sound are not that complicated to get.
In my case, when my J-1 was reaching to its end, so I talked with my company Cetra Ruddy and applied to the O1 Visa, with the help of the lawyers of our company (normally all the offices have, and they know exactly what to do in this cases). So after this, I work some weeks to prepare all the dossier that you have to prepare, including (letters of recommendation, CV, portfolio, prizes, articles, publications, basically all the info you can find about yourself).
After this, normally you have to wait some weeks until they answer you, and you will need to go back to your country if you are still here when the «final yes» arrives (that is an incredible e-mail moment). In my case, I was in Spain, where I am from, so I just went to the embassy to make the final interview. After that, the passport will arrive to you, and you will be able to come back with the O1 Visa, to keep in this marvelous adventure that Architect-US bring us firstly.
Get the O1 Visa! It is not impossible, so follow your dreams!
