[IWantOut] 24M USA-> Canada/UK

[u/Galaxy_Ass]

I am a 24 year old AMAB currently living in Washington State. I have a Bachelor’s in Earth and Space Sciences, but bot much work experience outside of working in a restaurant. I’m interested in going back to school to study computer science and I want to know if I could study in Canada or the UK, or use my current degree to find a job in either of these countries, but I’m unsure of where to get started because all the information on immigration is very overwhelming to me.

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[u/Pennsylvanier]

I’m going to be real with you. Based on the current labour market, do not move to the UK. Home students are already getting butchered in this labour market.

International graduates (except Oxbridge) are beyond screwed. Because to qualify for a visa, companies have to pay immigrants a rate that could be upwards of 20% higher than what they typically pay home students.

[u/Pesec1]

Regarding Canada:

Getting a company to sponsor you would be orders of magnitude more difficult than getting a job related to your degree in USA. If you can't easily get a job related to your degree in USA, that is not an option.

Applying for Permanent Residency in Canada directly is not an option since restaurant work doesn't count and thus you won't have enough points.

Your best bet is applying into Graduate program in Canada. Getting a degree in Canada will entitle you to an open work permit, meaning that you will be able to apply for a job without a company needing to sponsor you. Combination of a Canadian degree and Canadian skilled (the job you apply for MUST be skilked work for it to count) will give you a lot of points, making you competitive.

[u/theatregiraffe]

Studying in the UK for a masters is relatively straightforward. You apply for a program that interests you, if you’re accepted, you’ll be able to apply for a student visa, and then you join the course (assuming you can afford international tuition). Masters programs allow you to apply for a two year graduate visa after graduating, but after those two years, you need to qualify for another visa to stay.

The skilled worker visa requires you be hired by a registered sponsor in an eligible occupation. Once you’re over 26 and/or no longer considered a new entrant, the job has to pay over £38,700. With your current experience, you will not be sponsored for a skilled worker visa so that’s not a path for you currently.

If you graduated from an eligible university within the last five years, you can look at the HPI visa as well, but this is also temporary.

[u/professcorporate]

You can get two one year open work permits using a Recognized Organization to participate in International Experience Canada. That, by definition, is temporary rather than permanent, but it can open doors that you can use to help make things permanent (eg if you get enough work experience in Canada to become eligible for Provincial or Federal immigration programs).

For UK, a Home Office approved employer would need to want to hire you with a high wage. With no work experience, and a degree they can probably find equally qualified candidates locally for, that's unlikely.

If you completed your degree within the last year, you could also get a working holiday to Ireland (again, temporary), which isn't on your list, but is reasonably similar in many ways to the UK which is (and has the added benefits of being an EU member if you wound up migrating permanently).

You could seek studies - best to contact directly universities you were interested in - bearing in mind that you'd need to pay international tuition fees, and wouldn't be eligible for local loans.

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[u/Few_Maize_1586]

Not easy to find a job in Canada these days without lots of experience. Canadian new grads and immigrants with good experience are also struggling. The situation has gotten much worse since I left especially because of the orange clown in the south of the border.