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In article <1345755086.51682.YahooMailNeo at web133102.mail.ir2.yahoo.com>, P Gebhardt <p.gebhardt at ymail.com> writes: Yeah, so? I'm not saying people from the Ukraine can't apply for a position at my employer, but hiring someone that isn't a US citizen and lives in a foreign country (i.e. is not currently residing in the US) makes things much more complicated. By law, a company is required to show *why* they must go outside the country in order to fill the position instead of filling the position with a US citizen. After that, a work visa has to be obtained and the employee has to be relocated to the US, which the employee usually expects the company to pay for -or- the company has to establish secure remote infrastructure for the employee to be able to work. Extending secure network services to the Ukraine may be non-trivial (I'm not in IT, so I have no idea what it would take for our company). I'm not an expert in international corporate law, but taking on the first employee in a new national political jurisdication probably involves some initial expense. If all you want to do is hire a fly-by-night contractor, then yeah, you can pretty much "spend and pray" any way you like with minimal regulatory hurdles. But where I work, we hire people for the long-term and don't do short-term contracts. You make it sound as if all that's involved is a plane flight and shipping your personal belongings. It's not anywhere nearly as simplistic as that, and hasn't been that way for a long, long time. When I got out of college in 1986, I worked 5 months in France. I had to go through a huge amount of bullshit just to do that short-term work as an employee. I can't even begin to imagine how much bullshit you have to go through now. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals.classiccmp.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>