Questions about teaching in US high schools

b_r_um
Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:12:07 +0000

It’s not difficult to secure a work visa if you have an employer willing to sponsor you. That’s rather inconvenient: it costs several thousand dollars, takes several months to process, calls for an attorney to help with the paper work; and even after you are hired, your employer would have to continue filing paper work to document that hiring foreign workers does not have negative consequences for his domestic staff. Not to mention that only positions which pay above-average wage for your occupation are eligible for a work visa at all.

Employers who don’t routinely hire large numbers of foreigners prefer to avoid all of that if there are qualified domestic applicants to fill the position.

That all being said, foreign PhDs from prestigious universities can normally secure a work visa if they want. You’d have a much harder time with a PhD from an average university.