{"id":30537,"date":"2022-01-05T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.architect-us.com\/blog\/?p=30537"},"modified":"2022-09-12T14:10:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T12:10:56","slug":"moving-to-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.architect-us.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/moving-to-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVING TO NEW YORK!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow night I will be in New York<\/strong>. I probably wouldn’t believe it if someone had told me 5 months ago. After 10 years living, studying, and working in Barcelona<\/strong>, I decided it was time for a change. For me, NY<\/strong> has always been THE city, and somehow I knew I would end up spending some time living there.<\/p>\n

After searching for ways of getting a job, learning everything about visas, and making up my mind that I was really doing this, I found out about Architect-US<\/strong> both from my own research and through recommendations, so I had no doubt and contacted them, and began getting in touch with Sonia, who has been amazingly helpful at the beginning of this journey.<\/p>\n

To begin with, I decided I wanted to try and get an interview by myself in some of the offices I knew I liked the most -knowing Sonia would be there to answer any questions or worries to me or my potential employers-, and to my surprise, after a few days and only a few emails, I had an interview with Eric and Mimi from nARCHITECTS<\/a>, one of my favorite US offices, based in Brooklyn<\/strong>. I was nervous, it was through Zoom, in English, and with something really big at stake. It went great! And after a few days of agreeing on the conditions, starting dates, etc., the visa process began. It was mid-October.<\/p>\n

After that, there were some moments of stress, for instance: when will my documents arrive? when will I get the Embassy appointment?. But I’m really happy to say everything was easy and smooth. I felt very secure every step of the way, and whenever I had any doubts I didn’t hesitate and contacted Sonia -or Pablo or Pati- and they quickly solved everything.<\/p>\n

Finally, in mid-December, I had my Embassy interview in Madrid<\/strong>, and just a few days later I was receiving my brand new J-1 visa in my passport at home (and avoid Omicron), I could FINALLY BOOK THE FLIGHTS.<\/p>\n

Now, everything is packed and ready to go on a crazy adventure for 18 months.<\/p>\n

I will let you all know how it goes, this has just been the beginning, still everything to figure out, discover, and learn.<\/p>\n

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