Permanent residency visas

You re qualified to do a chemist s job in the drug industry if you earned at least a baccalaureate degree in chemistry. But before you get a job or even an invitation to interview, you need to show your credentials to suitable employers and to know what they seek. What you must know and show is the subject of Chapter 7, which presents the common prerequisites that employed chemists meet and the various qualifications that B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. scientists offer. The chapter also discusses permanent residency and working visas as well as the important role played by the American Chemical Society in helping chemists find jobs. It concludes with methods for discovering the open positions that need chemists. 

This section mainly interests foreign-bom scientists seeking employment-based visas. But the section entitled Labor Certification concerns U.S. citizens and permanent residents. It explains the help-wanted advertisements that direct their applications to state employment agencies rather than to private employers. These advertisements are sometimes a source of wonderment. 

Some companies insist that job hunters possess green cards or HIB visas as prerequisites to employment or even interviews. However, it is commonplace for large employers to sponsor HIB visas and permanent residency petitions on behalf of chemists who have already begun their jobs. How these companies go about this is explained next. 

Special bilateral agreements for border regions, such as long term multi-entry national visas at low or zero charge, very short-term visas for one or two days to facilitate local family contacts, tourism and small scale commerce, and (outside Schengen jurisdiction) long-term or permanent resident permits ... 

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