1) For Australia you have 2 options for long-term stay:
- Your wife comes in under a student visa, and you + your baby come in as her dependents. If you do this option you will be able to work full time, but actually getting the student visa this way is expensive; your wife needs to demonstrate existing financial capacity to support herself and all her dependents.
Upon receiving her PhD your wife can apply for PR
- You and/or your wife come in under the skilled migration program, which you can get if your skills match the Skilled Occupation List. There are different visa subclasses (e.g. sponsored by an employer) but the gist is the same.
The student visa is processed quickly but is expensive (they will check your bank statements).
The skilled migration visa is much slower, so if you're thinking of coming over in 2 years time, you should be applying for this visa NOW.
2) There are absolutely PhD programs in Australia, a dozen of my colleagues in Sydney have PhDs and I know more students currently working on their thesis / research paper. You do your PhD research under an advisor. It would be rare for a professor in any Australian university to NOT have a PhD. I'm baffled by this point actually.
3) One way would be to get a job at a multinational, then get an 'internal' transfer to the US. At my last job (New York-based company with an office in Sydney) we got a lot of Americans coming this way.
If you were just poking around looking at available jobs visit Seek.com.au - it is the dominant job search website in Australia. There are others (CareerOne, MyCareer) but almost all the job ads you see there you'll see on Seek.
- Your wife comes in under a student visa, and you + your baby come in as her dependents. If you do this option you will be able to work full time, but actually getting the student visa this way is expensive; your wife needs to demonstrate existing financial capacity to support herself and all her dependents.
Upon receiving her PhD your wife can apply for PR
- You and/or your wife come in under the skilled migration program, which you can get if your skills match the Skilled Occupation List. There are different visa subclasses (e.g. sponsored by an employer) but the gist is the same.
The student visa is processed quickly but is expensive (they will check your bank statements).
The skilled migration visa is much slower, so if you're thinking of coming over in 2 years time, you should be applying for this visa NOW.
2) There are absolutely PhD programs in Australia, a dozen of my colleagues in Sydney have PhDs and I know more students currently working on their thesis / research paper. You do your PhD research under an advisor. It would be rare for a professor in any Australian university to NOT have a PhD. I'm baffled by this point actually.
3) One way would be to get a job at a multinational, then get an 'internal' transfer to the US. At my last job (New York-based company with an office in Sydney) we got a lot of Americans coming this way.
If you were just poking around looking at available jobs visit Seek.com.au - it is the dominant job search website in Australia. There are others (CareerOne, MyCareer) but almost all the job ads you see there you'll see on Seek.