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> That means a citizen or have a green card No, anything remotely close to the US government requires a full citizenship. I got slammed by that when I was in t
by whorleater 10y ago
> That means a citizen or have a green card
No, anything remotely close to the US government requires a full citizenship. I got slammed by that when I was in the middle of applications for scientific software companies which did government contracting on the side.
- foob_newman 10y agoWorking on GovCloud requires ITAR which is citizen or "permanent resident" (green card). There are other positions that require a security clearance, but GovCloud does not. GovCloud is open to non-governmental customers who need to meet stricter requirements (it's not solely for government use).
- throwawayish 10y ago> GovCloud is open to non-governmental customers Some excellent naming there ;)
- Rezo 10y agoIt's still pretty apt, the reason the non-government customers are in GovCloud is almost always because their customers are in the government. For example, if you want to sell a service to US government departments, you'll find it much easier to do so if you have a presence in GovCloud yourself.
- rdtsc 10y agoDepends on what you do. Often managers don't even know so they just use "citizen" as rule to be safe. Also worked for the military and we had a variety of citizens, non-citizens, green card holders and non-green card holders. We had to go through silly gymnastics on who can talk about what and work on what depending on their status.
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- nommm-nommm 10y agoYou got that wrong. It depends if you need to be a citizen or not. I've personally known permanent residents to work in government contracting. For your case, if I had to guess, it's probably the physical building/facility they required you to work at had restrictions on unescorted non-citizens.