Need help/info/link on how to move to another country (immigration)

[CatonTheRoof]

Good evening my fellow kidney warriors

I can't believe that almost 4 years have passed since my life changed due to an unexpected kidney failure pushing me to dialysis in the most aggresive of ways.    I was 21 back then, now 25.   And even though it is considered young, somehow through all those trials I feel I've matured much more (spiritually and mentally)


I have been on the waiting list for over 2 and a half years since sadly I do not count with any family member able to donate.  Every two months I take my serum to the laboratory, but no called has happened.  And who knows when it could.
Precisely because of this, and because I do not want to see my life frozen for who knows how many years more,  I would like to get more info on how to move from else even if I'm still on dialysis.       Keep in mind, that I would pay for my own peritoneal dialysis treatment.

I'm from a South American country and don't have that much information about it.   I'm not looking to move to the US or Canada, but I'm contemplating some other possibilities.


Does anyone by any chance,  has info about this subject?    or has lived/heard about a case similar?   

**IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IT'S A PRE-TRANSPLANT OR POST-TRANSPLANT STORY, I WOULD BE VERY GREATFUL IF ANYONE HAS INFO ABOUT IMMIGRATION/MOVING TO ANOTHER COUNTRY.


p.s.  Sorry if this is not the appropiate place for my question 

[cassandra]

Best thing to do is try to get in contact with a kidney patient association in the country you want to go to. If you can't find that online, ask the embassy for info. That's what I did anyway.

Good luck, love, Cas

[iolaire]

Does anyone by any chance,  has info about this subject?    or has lived/heard about a case similar?   

From what I have read immigrating to the US is hard.  Likely you would need to enter some sort of lottery system to get a visa to the US.  Otherwise you might have a better chance if you have friends or family that can sponsor you.  Finally its more easy if you are an employee of a company who needs your specialized skills - for example if you are a Dialysis tech you might be able to get hired by DaVita and they will help you with your immigration process (my shifts nurse is Filipino and she came here via Ireland).

For example here are details on immigration from Chile to the US from a US embassy website:
http://chile.usembassy.gov/immigrant_visas.html
Immigrant Visas' General Categories

Immigrant visas are issued to individuals traveling to the United States to take up permanent residency. According to U.S. immigration law, persons eligible to immigrate to the United States are divided into three general categories:

1.direct relatives of citizens, such as parents, spouses, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters and direct relatives of legal resident aliens, such as spouses and unmarried sons and daughters;
2.beneficiaries of an approved employment-based petition in the U.S.;
3.people selected at random through a visa lottery.

[JW77]

There were a couple of threads about this on the KPG forums

http://www.kidneypatientguide.org.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=2

 A kidney friend of mine left the UK to work as a nurse in New Zealand, emigration laws a pretty strict, so she had to go through all the hoops and loops to get there.