Can anyone familiar with getting work visas in canada/austrailia/europe offer some tips?

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I'm graduating in May and quite seriously looking to leave.
Not just in a knee-jerk reactionary way, I've been planning it for a while. I've even read up on a few specific work visa point systems, but I want to know where I have a shot at getting one for.

Ideally I'd want to go to Germany since I speak german and love their culture, but I know that work visas for EU countries are terribly difficult to get. I'd totally settle for canada or austrailia or almost anywhere in europe, though.

Thanks!

― obviously, Wednesday, 3 November 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Australian working holiday visas are pretty easy to obtain:

AUS/other country info:

www.bunac.org

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 10:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Residence papers in Germany aren't that hard to get if you have a job first -- what's your field of study?

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm, I'm not sure whether the work visas in the EU are that hard to get, this varies according to different nations, I don't think there is a blanket EU regulation on this. In Finland at least I think you get a visa automatically if you've got a job here, and you can stay here at least as long as you're working.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm graduating with a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences this year. Probably also with a minor in Urban and Regional Planning. I'm not entirely sure what kind of job prospects that leaves me with, though.

I'm going to check out that bunac website right now. What's a working holiday visa, though? Ideally I want to apply for citizenship after a while if possible.

― obviously, Wednesday, 3 November 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Let the brain drain begin!

― Dale Panopticalis (cprek), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

A working holiday visa varies according to country. In the UK, it is 1 year, for example.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a lot of paperwork and travel involved, but getting a work visa in Canada is fairly easy. I'm not positive, but I think you can actually work there for up to three months without a visa (so you can move before the forms are processed).

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

University educated (w/ B.Sc ++), english speaking from the states is basically a nobrainer for immagration so I'm sure you can get whatever you need for a work permit in Canada.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone know of any job openings in Canada, the UK, Ireland or Australia? Upper management, marketing communications or research...

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Come up and work in a pot-growing operation, bikers aren't anal about paperwork

― dave q, Wednesday, 3 November 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Does craigslist have any canadian cities?

I'm going to go check right now.

― obviously, Wednesday, 3 November 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

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