i have accounting degree business background construction .. also i manage too gyms and 3 small hotels i can cook like no tommorrow and have for the hotels and business consulting and can speak italian not real well but can hold converstaion my family from italy but since my dad past dont get to speak it often... any leads please im listening...
ALSO any idea where to start on working papers is working under the table as we say hard to do there... and if i marry there can i stay while the papers are in procsess....
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05-02-2012, 03:32 PM
05-02-2012, 06:41 PM
you need to google work permits in Jamaica and while you are checking that out google getting married to a Jamaican citizen. Their laws change all the time so it is best to get off the internet. Also once you are there you can check things out a little easier. I do believe that if you marry there and then apply to stay it is somewhat easier and by being married you get the right to work. You have to have many documents to take to Kingston to begin working on your papers. You will find out what these are when you google (passport, birth certificate, marriage license, health certificate, police report , financial papers, etc) Here is one site I found http://jamaica.visahq.com/ and I am sure if you google you will find your answers. Good luck...remember things in Jamaica take 3xs longer than in the states and traveling back and forth to Kingston several times is also costly. Also often there are fees associated with each application which you should be made aware of. Let us know how you come out.
05-02-2012, 06:57 PM
Employ yourself. You are everything that a business would want !!!!
05-03-2012, 09:34 AM
Employing yourself is probably your best option but know that it is not an easy road. You must have enough money without working or bringing money in to survive, especially at first. Your skills, while impressive won't qualify you "uniquely" for a job there (that a Jamaican can't do). If you were fluent in Italian you could get a job with one of the tour companies - one of my neighbors is Italian and she's been doing that for a long while, another friend is fluent in 3 languages and that's how she's made her living in Jamaica the entire time she's been there. Work permits - ugh. Its a huge process, its an expensive process and its a long process. It costs close to $1,000 per year (including all the fees, brata ad transport to and from Kingston - not to mention being fingerprinted every year). "Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right..."
www.westcountywestend.com
05-03-2012, 10:33 AM
You might also gain some great insight from some on-island Italian expats living there and running businesses there (not sure if you are an Italian national or US citizen?) Good luck!!
05-03-2012, 12:52 PM
I'm not the best source for this type of information, but it seems to me that everyone who's been successful at this has gone into the move with a good sum of money to start with. All the best in your future endeavors! |
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