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Hello.

First of all, if this is the wrong forum please advice me where to move this post. Thank you. :)

So my case starts like this: I have a family friend living in the US, he has got his visa long ago and he owns a company. He would be interested in hiring me. But now I'm in need of a visa.

I have browsed for different visas for some time now. And the seasonal working visa doesent describe my need. I cant get a student visa, as I graduated from University long ago. And I cant really describe myself as a "Foreign national with extraordinary ability in Sciences, Arts, Education, Business or Athletics".

The temporar visas look more suitable, but I've heard that people have to wait for them for years.

I would be interested to hear any advice or personal experiences regarding of obtaining an visa. Thank you.

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Topic has been moved from Immigration News forum to Employment Visa forum as the OP has a job offer and is trying to determine how to get a visa. Except for exceptional circumstances, the only way to accept a job offer in the US is through an employment visa so the topic has been moved to this forum.

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Well, what will you be doing for your friend? Unless you do have great qualifications and/or experience, it will be near impossible to get a visa, as you have already found out.

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Your Employer's Immigration Lawyer sorts out the visa.

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Generally, a US employer who wants to hire a foreign worker must file for the work visa on behalf of the foreign worker. The US employer must file for a certification from the Dept. of Labor that no US person qualifies or can be found for the job and that is why the US employer is seeking to hire a qualified foreign person.

The US government is not going to give you a work visa just because a US employer is willing to hire you. The US government would rather keep you out so the US employer will hire a US person. To be blunt, it is stupid to let a US employer to bring in foreign workers to compete for jobs with US workers.

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You do not need the certification for certain visa's, plus it is easy to work around.

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You use the specific capabilities of the the person you want to employ in your job requirements.

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Thank you for all your replies.

I wonder if it would be possible to assure that the employer would be more comftorable sharing the management with a person he knows. Dont know, sounds like a little bit far fetched.

I wonder if programming and designing databases could be considered as an extraordinary ability? Again, to my ear it sounds little bit far fetched. Or perhaps I just know how from experience where to get high level programmers.

And yeah, the economy is not helping the matter. It's unfortunate.

If anyone has more to add, I'm more than happy to read them.

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It does not really matter, it is the Employer's Lawyer that deals with all this, he or she is the one to put it all together.

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I wonder if programming and designing databases could be considered as an extraordinary ability? Again, to my ear it sounds little bit far fetched. Or perhaps I just know how from experience where to get high level programmers.

Working in the field for over 15 years I know a fair number of US Citizens with the same credentials who are currently looking for work. It wasn't all that long ago an Hi_b for your skillset would have been easy but the winds of change they blow strong on this industry.


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Working in the field for over 15 years I know a fair number of US Citizens with the same credentials who are currently looking for work. It wasn't all that long ago an Hi_b for your skillset would have been easy but the winds of change they blow strong on this industry.

I agree with Bob, programmer or ability to design DB would not be considered extra ordinary skill.

There are tons and tons of those available in the market.

Infact CO would be asking more as to why is your friend being a small company willing to spend all this money in immigration over hiring a local person.

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Small company, dont think he has an lawyer empoyed.

Then the first thing to do would be to appoint one.

Very few Companies actually directly employ such Lawyers.

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