Hi guys, I just thought I'd share my good news with you all.

My boyfriend Matt (he's the American in our relationship) proposed to me whilst we were celebrating NYE in Edinburgh. We're planning on getting married next winter with him moving here around August/September.

We're both very happy although he's now back in the States for the next four months.

Hi there all,

I actually joined this group in about 2005, but I am now back, older and wiser, with a new girlfriend and new questions, haha.

Name: Danny

SO's name: Erika
Your ages: I'm 25, she's 21

How long have you been together? Roughly 19 months

How did you meet? Mutual friend from working at an Outdoor Ed centre

Where are you both from? I'm from London, shes from Edison, NJ

Any plans for the future? This is the whole thing, we're at this crossroads (which Im sure many here are familiar with) where we sort of feel like we should start to at least plan the next step otherwise we might be stuck in this long distance relationship forever with no end in sight. We were fortunate enough where we've managed to spend a lot of time together (2 summers working at summercamp, and various visits in between) and we've both come to the conclusion that being apart for months and months isn't the relationship we really want, and that we need to start making some moves to have a proper future.

Anything else you'd like to share with us? That is pretty much our deal!

Any pics? Plenty, how do I make one of those nice and tidy LJ cuts without messing up the place with a million pictures?

Hopefully this works?



Anyway, my main reason for posting was this. Like I mentioned, we want to have some sort of vague plan. At the moment we are both at University, she is in her 2nd year, and I am in my first as a mature student training to be a Teacher. Although the obvious route seems to be to simply wait until we are both graduated, this seems like a crushing amount of time to wait, and we'd love to find a quicker route.

I've tried to do some research before posting here, but everything seems to be wildly overwhelming, and the information seems quite broad considering the specific nature of each relationship. Anyway, being students we obviously don't have much money, and its my understanding that we'd need some sort of steady income to be accepted for anything. However, we would have a place to stay in either country whoever was to move.

I guess essentially, I am asking if there is a way that one of us could go to the other's country even on like a 6 month basis and be able to apply for some sort of work out there. Our main concern is that we don't want to be rushed into a marriage just for the sake of a visa application, but it would be amazing to have a chance to live together for a semi extended amount of time, just to get an idea of how this would really work. I know I could travel over as a tourist, but it would be far more viable if whoever moved where could do some barwork, etc.

Sorry for the rambling nature of this post, its 5.30 in the morning and I just rediscovered this group whilst looking on LJ for the first time in ages, but I was hoping somebody could help me or just give some definitive answers regarding our options.

Thanks all!

Dan

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