> but legally they have to post the job and interview a certain number of candidates to prove there is no US citizen that can do it I've got my first job after

> but legally they have to post the job and interview a certain number of candidates to prove there is no US citizen that can do it I've got my first job after moving countries in Europe, despite this (very similar but it was 6 weeks IIRC) limitation being in place by law, within a week. Consulting body shop through which I was billing per day, and the umbrella company took 20% cut. It seems its trivial to circumvent this kind of rule across the globe, and TBH what kind of state employee team would go over every single foreign first hire in given region, all the evidence and check its validity, gather all the details. Heck police ignore smaller crimes below certain threshold, states have no real processing power to handle this well.