Converting my CDL

Call your states Dept of Motor Vehicles.

 

It depends if you are staying permanently or temporarily? Either way I think you'll have to get a work visa until you get your citizenship.

Like Onetruckpony said contact the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

http://bmv.ohio.gov/cdl.stm#SPECIAL

http://bmv.ohio.gov/acceptable_id_documents.stm

http://bmv.ohio.gov/driver_license.stm#tog

 

i think 99% you have to pass all exams and get us CDL to be able drive commercially in us

 

People from countries like Australia and the UK an convert licenses easily. However, if you are from the EEC, you will need a green card which will enable you to work in the USA. First, you have to have a resident card. You will have to start from a car license and do the whole CDL test from scratch (as if you never drove a truck). Some countries have agreements with the US and some do not-this is why and Australian can driver here (same as a British citizen. When I am in the UK, I can drive a car anywhere on my US license. When I was over there (working-not driving over there) my US CDL expired and I had to start with a car-learner permit here and do the whole CDL test even though I had driven 23 years in the US in an 18. As mentioned, you have to get a legal residence then a green card. Start with the local DMV.

 

I think what they are trying to say is that work-based immigration as a truck driver simply isn't going to happen.
The shortage of qualified truckers is not great enough.

But if you have (typically) family-based immigration then the only concession you get is that effectively you don't need the learner's permit you can proceed directly to the testing. Both written and on the road testing.

Just as a general comment, testing for a car license is easier in the US than you are likely to have experienced in Europe, but truck driver testing is at least as hard.

If you are marrying a US citizen in the US then it is important that you enter the US on a 6 month visa such as a tourist visa, and NOT a 3 month visa waiver. If you have a tourist visa you will be allowed to work legally a day or two after your immigration application is received and you don't need an immigration attorney. If you use a 3 month visa waiver you will need to hire an immigration attorney and may very well have to wait until your immigration application is decided, and that could be a year. If you want to pursue this issue further, this is not the right forum, try an immigration forum or hire an immigration attorney.