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Subject:RE: Trying to flee to the USA From:Lisa McG------- <LMcG------- -at- thefund -dot- com> To:"'TECHWR-L'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:14:32 -0400
I am answering this in more detail off-list, out of respect for the list
manager's comments about this thread previously, but the below commentary is
in my opinion not true given that I have a Dublin-born friend who works on
contract in the U.S. I doubt he could have gotten in to work here if he
wasn't doing it via contract work though, I suppose. I don't know if the
same applies for tech writers or not, but I'm just speculating that contract
work might be how people can work in other countries more easily, at least
on a temporary basis.
> As far as I know, for an Irish citizen to be able to work in
> the States,
> you have to have either won a visa in a US lottery (Morrison,
> J-1 etc.)
> or, if it's a US company that's bringing you across, they
> have to prove
> that no one in the whole US can do they job that you can do.
