May I help You further?

Submitted by Ynnatchkah (United States), Jan 24, 2008 at 17:19

Hi anonymous:

Sorry, but he needs you.

I have some experience in the matter, although I'm not a citizen of the US, or an attorney:

You said: "...If he comes on a work visa, he won't need me for a green card"...

Oh Yes, he will need you as time goes by.

A work Visa, in other words, the so called H-1 A (in some cases H-1 B) Visa, expires in the best case scenario three years and can be renewed for more three years. To get such as Visa, he has not a degree to which the United states of America is desperate, for to say, meaning: Nurses, Physiotherapists, High Tech engineers, Scientists and people normally from Hi tech that has at least 15 years of well performed his profession, and in an area that the US needs. To come with an H-1 a Visa he has to be sponsored by a company that proves that no one in the US, after searching for 3 months, may occupy the position he applies. It implicates in several factors:

1. People from law cannot freely come to the US. He has to revalidate his diploma which takes at least, 2-3 years without working (Unless he works at the University with an F-1 Visa) and as I know in the US, he needs to have a BA in any humanities before applying to law studies, which I do not know whether or not he has. And, if finance is a complement, then he is out of the spectrum.

2. People to law and finance the US has in wholesale...Everybody here wants to be in the business area. It is simply in the "common" blood here. I'm' not criticizing I find it very beautiful.

3. A company may fake that it did not find anybody like him, reason why they need him. It is not only much difficult to prove than in a hi tech area, but also, due to his Arabic background it will rise flags. For example, if somebody from CAIR that has a company in the Silicon Valley, which is the case of Omar Ahmad.

4. Not to say that for the numbers 1 and 2 he will need to come with a very good asset to pay at least 4-5 times more than any Americans, as a foreign student in ANY University in the US, except one in OR. Actually, Universities and Colleges protect students from the ME, b/c with no objection; they not only pay 5 times more, but do not mind not to work and spend a lot. But it is a long story.

5. And, in the meantime, who is going to support his adventure, until he plants strong feet in the country, if he is not rich?

So He needs you and in my opinion, He knows that.

All the Best and sorry for the poor English.

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