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I would think it’s a function of the job offer, seniority and the “help” of the hiring company. That, plus the passage of time. The more senior the candidate

I would think it’s a function of the job offer, seniority and the “help” of the hiring company. That, plus the passage of time. The more senior the candidate is (and can prove), the more varied the visa possibilities are. Each country has various visa description pages on line somewhere and there might be eu level stuff as well (never looked). But it’s non trivial unless there’s a real skill match as, technically, they might have to guarantee there’s no natives who can do the work. Check whether there are specific country-level agreements like nafta between us/Canada and Mexico. This changes the rules for the appropriate countries’s citizens. Canada/us is quite straightforward to cross if a job offer is in hand and one of a fair number of career categories is met.

the_biot 4y ago
> I would think Did you actually just make all this shit up?
- jleyank 4y ago
  No, was drawing on my experiences trying to work in the uk, Canada, us and investigating the eu. It’s all on-line for each country and probably in Wikipedia as well. I’m most familiar with the us/Canada border, and you can check the nafta t23 visa in Canada and the tn visa in the states? Why would you think it’s bs? Uk: https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas Us: https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/work-canada/permit.html https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se... Eu immigration: https://european-union.europa.eu/live-work-study/immigration-eu_en https://european-union.europa.eu/live-work-study/immigration... Lots of rules to follow and some expense and time involved.
  - johnwalkr 4y ago
    Your comment is just speculation and it works differently than immigration for tech work between US and Canada. The comments about “blue card” visas are correct. Also, TN visas work for engineers with a four-year degree, do not automatically work for software developers, although you might be able to massage the (probably outdated) job description to include “computer systems analyst”.

the_biot 4y ago

> I would think Did you actually just make all this shit up?

jleyank 4y ago
No, was drawing on my experiences trying to work in the uk, Canada, us and investigating the eu. It’s all on-line for each country and probably in Wikipedia as well. I’m most familiar with the us/Canada border, and you can check the nafta t23 visa in Canada and the tn visa in the states? Why would you think it’s bs? Uk: https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas Us: https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/work-canada/permit.html https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se... Eu immigration: https://european-union.europa.eu/live-work-study/immigration-eu_en https://european-union.europa.eu/live-work-study/immigration... Lots of rules to follow and some expense and time involved.
- johnwalkr 4y ago
  Your comment is just speculation and it works differently than immigration for tech work between US and Canada. The comments about “blue card” visas are correct. Also, TN visas work for engineers with a four-year degree, do not automatically work for software developers, although you might be able to massage the (probably outdated) job description to include “computer systems analyst”.