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

Perhaps in your particular case, you use those sort of resources only when
necessary, but as someone that has also seen entire departments of the last
two LARGE insurance companies that I have done work for replaced by rows of
people imported for 3-6 months at a time, I have to side on the paranoid
side....

David P. Bowler
[email protected]
www.hegemony.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Brown" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 2:01 PM
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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