I am a British first year university student and I am wondering what is the best route for me to take in order to work on Wall Street one day. How hard is it to work for a bank on wall street and should I apply for US based internships or just focus on those based in London and go from there. Any help would be great.
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This has been discussed at length on this forum. Making the move as a non-US citizen from a non US school to the US is virtually impossible because of visa issues. Focus on getting into London IB first and transfer to NY down the line
1) you transfer to a US school and get CPT/OPT in the US, plus several shots at H1b afterwards
2) you start working in London and then transfer on L1
3) first degree family members can sponsor family based permanent residency
4) diversity lottery (if you quality by descent or residency or passport - British countries DO NOT qualify as of last year with the exception of Northern Ireland)
5) non-immigrant visa via E1 or E2 route (treaty trader, treaty investor) - 5 year visa with relatively small amounts of money; however, this would be a risky route as most young businesses fail. you can buy an existing business but that would be more expensive
6) NIW/EB1 - you can self-sponsor your permanent residency if you are a professional "with extraordinary abilities"
there are bunch of other visas for European migrants. I will skip the rest of them, please feel free to research.
All of this also works for EU countries, ie you can work for Tesla in Amsterdam and then transfer to Palo Alto, CA. The only visas that don't allow this process are where nationality plays a role, i.e E visas.
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