There are a few things you need to consider and hopefully do something about it:
1) Without any intent to insult you, you need to improve your English. I had to leave some schools because as much as I wanted to learn, I simply could not understand the instructor. I liked them and they probably are good in their styles, but if I can only understand one word in ten, it is not going to do me any good. While your English is not that bad, it would help you if you prove it further.
2) Most martial art teachers in the US are barely making enough to pay the bills. I had one teacher who was teaching at a loss in that he was paying over $500 each month out of his own money to keep the school going. He did it out of love for the art. Plus, in times of economic hardship many students quit to save money. If you are going to teach martial art, you NEED a job other than teaching martial art.
3) While Europe is facing hard economic times and things in the US are comparatively better, the difference is not that wonderful if you do not have a college education or some sort of background to get a decent job. Making minimum wage is not going to help you.
EDIT:
When I stated that there are no requirements to teach martial art, I meant it in the legal sense. That is, there is no state or federal laws. However, there are the different martial art affiliations/organizations in the US that will have their own requirements in that you cannot claim to be a member of their organization without proof of qualification. So it is a matter of the private sector governing its members.
US immigration laws as I understand it does not limit you to one and only one profession. I don't know how it is done in Europe, but if you are here legally you can work in any number of jobs except maybe a very few state and federal positions which requires full citizenship and mostly because some may require a security clearance.
I would have to respectfully disagree about get a martial art employer to sponsor you to be easier than an economics related job As I stated earlier, very few martial art schools here actually make the kind of money to employ fulltime someone other than the chief instructor. I really think you will have MORE and better luck using your economics degree. Have you thought about going to graduate school in the US for a Masters or Ph.D.? If your qualifications are good enough, you might even get a professorship or some sort of teaching position at an university and that would give you more time for training and teaching martial art.
As a European you may not face a lot of problems to work in the USA. (There are big Mediterranean communities in the USA, especially Greeks and Italians. Go if you want through them or ask them for an advice) The difference you may get are the differences in culture. My advice is to check a bit the culture of the place (state-city-town e.t.c) that you are going also. Be yourself and don't hold back, but check a bit their ways of living, doing things e.t.c. I have lived in different countries, I know what I am saying. Mediterraneans are normally easy to have a great time anywhere, but don't expect to find this great food culture, going out everyday, the lots of small places to sit for drinks, food, coffee, the many small shops, old historical buildings, e.t.c plus the great weather everywhere. If you ask me the Mediterranean countries are some of the best places to live. Why on earth someone wants to leave from Italy!!?:) The economy will be ok in the European south in around 2 years.
Haki: My answers are not specifically and necessarily there only for the person that have asked but for everyone that is interested for something similar at any time, since all the answers can be searched and viewed at any time. I know what I am saying and the reasons why am saying what I am saying and the related knowledge and experiences. The exaggeration of the 20 years that you are saying, is one of the differences in culture. Where you are going, people do not tend to exaggerate like that. Do you really believe that the economy of South Europe will need 20 years to recover and that anyone reading realities will laugh for 3 hours? D:
Getting a green card is not easy, not even for an European. I know an European who had to apply just for a visa 3 times and that person was engaged to an American looking to get married in the US.
You could get a visa first (kind of getting your foot in the door) and then try to apply for a green card once in the US if you have an American sponsor, someone who is willing to make sure you have a place to live and wants you to work for them. If you really are a master you could try and find people from your school who are already in the US and see if they will sponsor you or students in the US who would want you to teach them.
As for opening a school you need no certificates or documents legally but people looking to train with you might want to check your credentials and having your teacher and his school issue you a teacher or master certificate that can be verified would probably be the way to go. I would also present these certificates when applying for your green card along with other proof of your achievements that got you your teacher and/or master certificates.
Your disadvantage is that you want to teach Kung Fu something that is not a high priority in the US nor is it a profitable business to where the US could expect a lot of taxes from you in the future. It would be easier if you had a degree in something more marketable than Kung Fu then found a job in that field. Then you can present it that you want to work in that field, never mentioning your Kung Fu goals and open your Kung Fu school on the side. When and if your Kung Fu school grows you can faze out the other job.
It won't be easy - American immigration is a slow process. If you're a noted expert though, that might work but you would need to have a sponsoring agency on the American side guaranteeing you a job - private practice would probably not fly with immigration. And unlike other fields, mastery of kung fu isn't a critical professional demand for the economy.
You won't be able to go to America. So I won't comment on your dream of being an owner off what is undoubtedly a future McDojo. American green cards are difficult to get. You can not go to the immigration office and say that you want to be a kung fu master when they ask you about your future job plans.
Kung is for jeps guess what they save 99 things before 100 or you know bricks is dangerous becare what you know by know and and now and not.
Let me save you the trouble and just advise you to not take that course of action.
Hi,i practice traditional kungfu from several years and soon i'll become a master.
I'm italian, but my dream is to live in USA and teach here this martial art. Could you please tell me about documents, qualifications ecc... that i need for teach in any of countries of United Stases? Thanks
