From owner-freebsd-jobs Fri Nov 22 10:42:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-jobs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DBD737B401; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:42:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from malasada.lava.net (malasada.lava.net [64.65.64.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10E3043E88; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:42:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cliftonr@lava.net) Received: from localhost (2652 bytes) by malasada.lava.net; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:42:09 -1000 (HST) via sendmail [stdio] id for Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:42:08 -1000 From: Clifton Royston To: Dan Langille Cc: Michael Smith , Marcel Moolenaar , Wes Peters , Julian Stacey , jobs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increasing my focus Message-ID: <20021122084208.C882@lava.net> References: <0A5B1369-FDE9-11D6-ADF8-0050E4660701@freebsd.org> <20021122072827.W3784-100000@m20.unixathome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021122072827.W3784-100000@m20.unixathome.org>; from dan@langille.org on Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 07:34:27AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-jobs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-jobs" in the body of the message