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OK, this is an immigration one.
To go to the US I have to have a visa, and to get a visa I have to get an American to commit to being my financial backer, basically. This means that in the period where I'm alive and in America but not a citizen or not with huge assets, if I end up costing the government any money, the government want to get that back off someone, and they have to have a particular person committed to that on paper.
It has to be an American, but Will can't do it because he doesn't have any assets on paper yet. The obvious other candidates - my mother-in-law, although an American, hates the very thought of me. My father-in-law, for his own reasons, will not do it. Can't argue with "no".
Problem.
Now, my family, may they be happy and live long, are willing to pick up the tab for anything that happens to me. They're willing to have a lawyer cook up a contract to that effect, one that would be good for bill-collecting between the US and the UK, so that if someone got bills from the US govt, my parents (brothers, sisters, etc) would see that they were paid. But it still needs someone on the other end of the contract.
Apart from anything else, it's a theoretical problem, because I can't imagine asking a complete stranger - where would I find one? - which leaves friends. And I don't really like entering into money deals with friends, on the grounds that that destroys friendships. I suppose contracts are one way of avoiding that.
Anyone know any assetted, American, total strangers?
To go to the US I have to have a visa, and to get a visa I have to get an American to commit to being my financial backer, basically. This means that in the period where I'm alive and in America but not a citizen or not with huge assets, if I end up costing the government any money, the government want to get that back off someone, and they have to have a particular person committed to that on paper.
It has to be an American, but Will can't do it because he doesn't have any assets on paper yet. The obvious other candidates - my mother-in-law, although an American, hates the very thought of me. My father-in-law, for his own reasons, will not do it. Can't argue with "no".
Problem.
Now, my family, may they be happy and live long, are willing to pick up the tab for anything that happens to me. They're willing to have a lawyer cook up a contract to that effect, one that would be good for bill-collecting between the US and the UK, so that if someone got bills from the US govt, my parents (brothers, sisters, etc) would see that they were paid. But it still needs someone on the other end of the contract.
Apart from anything else, it's a theoretical problem, because I can't imagine asking a complete stranger - where would I find one? - which leaves friends. And I don't really like entering into money deals with friends, on the grounds that that destroys friendships. I suppose contracts are one way of avoiding that.
Anyone know any assetted, American, total strangers?