Hello, I am 2 months out from finishing my doctorate and I want to move to a new country! My brother and my family already moved different places with their jobs so there’s no reason for me to stay here when I could be seeing new places too. We have a country picked out and my spouse is excited because they have close friends living in the city we’re aiming for. Rather than go through all the new license-to-practice hoops [can easily cost $$$-$$$$ to establish] in the USA just to go someplace else and immediately pay for and take all the re licensing fees and exams I’m wondering if I can just… skip that part and move to a new place and take my exams there. This probably sounds pretty dumb to people who know about how to do this, but I don’t know who to ask about this sort of thing. The library wasn’t very helpful, and googling “move to XXX” just gives me a ton of websites loaded with either overly generic or overly complex government information and adverts for specialists that ask for a whole lot of intimate data on their webpage before they’ve even agreed to talk to you. I’d love to talk to a person who can help me. That has to be someones job right? Whats the name of that job? Does anyone recommend smart ways about starting the per-immigration planning process?

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    6 days ago

    I think the best fit would be an immigration lawyer? Those ppl are incredibly expensive (probably in the $1000s to begin with) and are country-specific, so mostly only ppl who have difficult cases do that…

    Can try to search the subreddits r/iwantout and r/immigration first, they have lots of good resources and past posts. Also can try expat.com

    Also don’t make my mistake… finding a job in a foreign country is incredibly hard, even with a doctorate. So it helps to cast a wide net and/or get a job offer first before making further plans