<p>My daughter wants to apply to SFS next year, as she want to work for international related jobs like UN, or something like in USA, if possible.
She has Canadian citizenship. It might be case to case, but genereally speaking, is it very hard to get a job in USA, especially for goverment job unless we have American citizenship or green card ?</p>
<p>I’m not sure they would let you get job in a govt. agency as an international. There are so many Americans jockeying to get positions in, like, the State Dept. that I can’t imagine they’d want to hire a Canadian. I know that the CIA, for example, won’t hire anyone who wasn’t born an American citizen. It makes sense, since they don’t necessarily “know where your loyalties lie”, since you’re a citizen of another country and will be handling “sensitive” info, and the like. I’m sure the UN would be acceptable, though, since the American government doesn’t do the hiring. I’d think it’d almost be easier, since the majority of job applicants there, to work at the headquarters, would be American, since it is located in NY.</p>
<p>Competitive government jobs generally require citizenship. NGO’s, international organizations, etc. would be fine, though, and work visas are pretty easy for Canadians to obtain.</p>
<p>The CIA definitely does hire people who weren’t born U.S. citizens though. I work with several of them.</p>
<p>Is she willing to become a U.S. citizen? If it’s for the UN though, I don’t imagine it would matter much.</p>
<p>She could always work for the Canadian Government couldn’t she?</p>
<p>There’s hundreds of NGO’s in DC…and anything internationally focused isn’t going to require you to be a US citizen. There’s the World Bank, the IMF, etc. Not to mention the Canadian embassy in DC which is naturally huge. </p>
<p>Being a Canadian citizen should really not be much of a barrier to most jobs outside the US government specifically.</p>