{"id":445,"date":"2016-11-23T15:04:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.architect-us.com\/2016\/11\/23\/up-in-the-clouds\/"},"modified":"2022-09-12T14:11:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T12:11:19","slug":"up-in-the-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.architect-us.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/up-in-the-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Up in the clouds. Thank you Architect-US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First a little bit about myself, my name is <strong>Clare Edwards<\/strong> I&#8217;m a <strong>UK<\/strong> <strong>Architect<\/strong> who&#8217;s been living in<strong> London<\/strong> for the last ten years. A couple of months ago I moved to<strong> Los Angeles<\/strong> with my husband. Moving to<strong> LA<\/strong> was a big move and I spent the first couple of weeks sorting stuff out and generally getting to grips with living in a new<strong> country<\/strong>. Because of my <strong>visa<\/strong> status I wasn&#8217;t able to work but knew that I wanted to take full advantage of my time in <strong>Los Angeles<\/strong> so I contacted<strong>&nbsp;to the director of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.architect-us.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Architect-US<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>program.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The work team of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.architect-us.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Architect-US<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>has been so helpful and really made the process of obtaining my<strong> J-1 visa<\/strong> understandable. Because I was already living in<strong> Los Angeles<\/strong> I was in the position to contact local<strong> Architecture practices<\/strong> myself. 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