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The best alien for the job

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I am a national of an Asian country who’s worked for public and not-for-profit organisations in a few different countries, including Australia and US. As an immigrant (affectionately known as an ‘alien’ in the US), I know how many hoops one must jump through to be able to live and work in another country. One of the worst ones is having to re-apply for your own job. Australian and US laws (and presumably many, if not most, other countries) require that organisations wishing to sponsor a foreign resident to work and live permanently in that country prove that there is no current citizen who...

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