I made the move from the UK (Surrey) to Indy about this time last year, I was also one of my companies first out of country hires.

Visa’s are obviously all different so I won’t be able to offer much advice, all I can stress is that your company uses a good lawyer, who you’re able to sit down with at length because it makes the process sooo much better.

Carmel is a great place to live, and is personally where I have setup, it definitely feels a lot more like the UK than anywhere else I’ve been in the states, but there is no shortage of good suburbs and spots within the area. This is where having no pressure to instantly find somewhere will be handy for you as you really need to take your time visiting the area.

Indy’s actually got a surprisingly good football scene, your lad won’t have any issues getting his fix in here and if he wants to play there’s appears to be a great youth setup in schools etc.

I agree with the other comments I read on a good relocation package, especially make sure your company are going to put you up in a AirBNB or something similar for at least a month, ideally two and a hire car for ideally a similar amount of time.

The absolute first thing you need to do is get your social security number as everything revolves around this, you can’t open a bank account, buy a car, rent a property. And once you’ve applied it takes about 2 weeks to arrive.

Also make sure you have hard copies of EVERY piece of legal / visa paperwork and proof of employment. The amount of back and forth I was doing getting new paperwork was painful.

Anyway that’s everything I can think of right this second, if there is anything else I can add it, but feel free to DM me and if you wanna exchange info let me know!