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From: matejcek@parvax.DEC
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Subject: Hiring non-US citizens
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 08:46:07 EST
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I used to work for a company which was the US 'branch' of a German
company which was a subsidiary of a California corporation.  It was
(potentially) a tremendous advantage to us to be able to hire on
occasion one of the engineers from Germany into a position in the US.
We had to 'prove' to INS (Immigration & Naturalization) that no US
citizen could do the job for which we were hiring -- a task which
we generally found impossible.  We could bring someone over for a
finite period -- two years, I believe -- but not permanently.  Once
a German citizen working for us as a technical manager married an 
American woman to help reinforce his case for remaining in the US.  
At the time I left that company, it wasn't clear that he was going
to be allowed to stay in the US anyway.....