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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 11:28:44 -0400
On second thought, Aoidin might be right. I thought he meant something else
by "winning a visa in a U.S. lottery." I guess I'll ask my old Irish
acquaintance after work.
> 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. Great if
> you're a tech-head programmer with obscure skills, not so great if
> you're a technical writer, I think ("No, no one else can write that
> manual, honest, guv!")
>
> Aoidin
