Hi Sam,
I would be after a working visa for a couple of years.
You are not going to get a standard "working visa" (and I guess you mean something like an H1), as flight instruction isn't considered a professional job, and there is no shortage of CFI applicants with the right to work in the US.
There is the J1 visa which lets you work as a CFI for a year or so after you have paid a US flight school to get a FAA CPL/CFI, but not sure whether this applies to you as you already have a CPL. You should ask somebody who knows.
The JAA are putting pressure on JAA schools in the U.S. to have JAA instructors, so i figure that gives me a 'Trade' that another U.S. instructor doesnt have, thus maybe making an application for the visa more viable.
You would have to get the INS to buy into that, and I would guess that would be an uphill struggle. This sounds more like a backdoor way for the JAA to shut down the US competition, but I am a cynic.
Plus there a girl out there.
Well, you could always marry her
, a bit drastic if you ask me.
Most CFIs here are waiting to move on to the airlines, and until the airlines start hiring they will be holding onto their current jobs, so no new openings. Plenty of US citizen CFI's doing the rounds of the flight schools, dropping off their cvs, and not getting anywhere. Right now it's tough for everybody, I don't think Europeans are going to find this the 'land of opportunity' for some time to come. It's bad all over, methinks.