> "Is someone willing to advertise the job to American citizens for a month or so, interview good potential candidates beforehand, and still want you?" You're

> "Is someone willing to advertise the job to American citizens for a month or so, interview good potential candidates beforehand, and still want you?" You're confusing H-1B visas with green card applications. This isn't relevant to work visas, only relevant to permanent residency applications. The H-1B visa does not require exhausting locals before hiring foreigners, all it needs is to demonstrate competence and education. Ditto the waiting years part, work visas do not take years, permanent residency permits do. The H-1B visa is very, very easy to apply so long as the candidate has at least a recognized bachelor's degree. The real downside to H-1B is that it's subject to annual caps, and therefore timing is inconvenient. The visas are valid starting October of that year, but must be applied for before the quota is exhausted. This historically is somewhere between April and August of that year. Not to mention once you have it the visa is portable between employers with none of the above restrictions. It's definitely not ideal, but working in the US is not nearly as hard as you're making it out to be.