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

Can this convo be moved to private email?

My inbox is being filled with crap I'm not interested
in.

Thanks.


--- Jason Kaczor <[email protected]> wrote:
> >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
> mailto:[email protected]
> Cellular:     (403) 870-NERD
> Home:       (403) 547-8550
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Unmoderated DOTNET job forum
> [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
>
>
> =====
> http://www.IWebThereforeIAm.com/


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