Re: .NET Technical Architect - Looking for contract opportunities.

A TN visa is certainly NOT painless, as it allows an American company to
hire less expensive foreign workers and thus worsens the American
unemployment picture. Ask any American who is looking for work if the
TN/H1-B/L-1 programs are "painless"! These programs are designed to
allow companies who have exhausted all other options to obtain the labor
they need, but too often these programs are abused, and become simply a
cost-cutting unpatriotic maneuver.

Richard J. Kucia
Owner, Kucia Associates


-----Original Message-----
From: Unmoderated DOTNET job forum
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hugh Brown
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 12:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DOTNET-JOBS] .NET Technical Architect - Looking for
contract opportunities.


Re: "I'm not looking for permanent opportunities, so may not be able to
go the
TN/NAFTA route."

A TN is specifically a work visa with temporary intent. Maybe you said
this
wrong, but if you want to work in the States temporarily, the TN visa is
exactly what you want. It does what you want and it lowers the bar for
American
employers who are concerned about the administrative complications of
permanent
visas (like the L-1 and the H1-B).

Also, for Americans who are hiring, getting a TN visa for a Canadian is
pretty
painless, as far as I can tell. There is no labor certification process,
for
example. It ought to be as easy as sending a detailed offer letter
("Dear Mr.
Kaczor, We here at AmeriCorp are dying to hire you as a Computer Systems
Analyst on a TN Visa...") and then filing a photocopy of the I-94 that
the
Canadian worker gets with the INS (recently renamed to something else).

But that's just my perspective as a Canadian who has had a number of
such
visas, not as an employer who has done the hiring.

Hugh

--- Jason Kaczor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, I am in the process of checking into authorization with a
> lawyer, the tricky issue is that I'm not looking for permanent
> opportunities, so may not be able to go the TN/NAFTA route.
>
> Regards
> Jason J. Kaczor
> mailto:[email protected]
> Cellular:     (403) 870-NERD
> Home:       (403) 547-8550
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Unmoderated DOTNET job forum
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Glen Malan
> Sent: March 26, 2003 10:47 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [DOTNET-JOBS] .NET Technical Architect - Looking for
> contract opportunities.
>
>
> Jason,
>
> Are you authorized to work in the US?  I have a position open for an
> architect but it is permanent staff in the Chicago area.  I cannot
> sponsor any visas though.
>
> Glen
> 630-933-2155
>
> > Willing to travel worldwide.


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