Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:42:08 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.com>, jobs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increasing my focus Message-ID: <20021122084208.C882@lava.net> In-Reply-To: <20021122072827.W3784-100000@m20.unixathome.org>; from dan@langille.org on Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 07:34:27AM -0500 References: <0A5B1369-FDE9-11D6-ADF8-0050E4660701@freebsd.org> <20021122072827.W3784-100000@m20.unixathome.org>
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On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 07:34:27AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Michael Smith wrote:
>
> > Without a green card, you need a permanent employer willing to sponsor
> > an H-1B application (moderately expensive for your employer).
>
> FWIW: I remember looking at this about a year ago. Canadians just need a
> special visa which they can apply for at the border. Certain conditions
> apply. Check out the US immigration website for details.
Yes; we employ one Canadian here (in Hawaii) as a junior systems
administrator, though we had to list some kind of confused job title
like Systems Analyst* as mentioned. There is still a moderate amount
of paperwork, which must be refiled annually, but the expense is
nowhere near as high. I believe the employer might have to make an
initial statement that they had advertised and failed to fill the job
with a U.S. citizen.
-- Clifton
* Random rant: The government will probably eventually get around to
adding terms like "Web designer" and "System administrator" to their
job categories about 10 years after those job categories have vanished
from the industry. I remember training as a Systems Analyst for a
while in the '70s, but does anybody still use the "Systems Analyst"
term any more?
--
Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- cliftonr@lava.net
"As for yourself, ... I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have
escaped many Vices of your Country. But by what I have gathered from
your own Relation, and the Answers I have with much Pain wringed and
extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the Bulk of your Natives to be
the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever
suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth."
- Jonathan Swift, _Gulliver's Travels_
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