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

>I'm with Brad on this: America prospers by the free availability of
labor and talent in the same way that it benefits from free trade in
products
>generally.

Concur, it seems to me the TN visa is actually derived from the NAFTA
Free-trade agreement, correct?  So, when our trained professionals went
south for the last 10-years (medical, engineering, computer science),
there was no problem - they were welcomed with open arms under NAFTA,
but now - due to our government decisions there is?  I live in a region
where thousands of US-citizens & specialists are working here, under
TN-like visas for the oil & gas sector, are they being unpatriotic?
See, from my understanding, under NAFTA it can go any of 3-ways...

Regards
Jason J. Kaczor
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hugh Brown
Sent: March 27, 2003 1:02 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DOTNET-JOBS] .NET Technical Architect - Looking for
contract opportunities.


Well, you're misrepresenting what I was saying for your own polemical
purposes. Whatever.

Bring it on.

Would all those American developers who could do my job please form a
line to the left? We've tried to find qualified Americans without a lot
of success.

I'm with Brad on this: America prospers by the free availability of
labor and talent in the same way that it benefits from free trade in
products generally.

--- Richard Kucia <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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


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