Working 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. 

Newman, B. Foreigners seeking work visas often land in hell instead, The Wall Street Journal, April 23, Cl (1998). 

Direct population statistics immigration, emigration, working visas issued Number of people and percentage of base popnlatimi... 

I admired him very much. He was interested in my early work in thermodynamics and invited me to Manchester when he was still Professor of Physical Chemistry. It was some time between 1945 and 1948. It was an exceptional period in Manchester. In addition to Polanyi, there was also Evans and Turing and others. I just happened to be there when he was planning to go to Chicago and he didn t receive the American visa because of his connections with the Communist Party in Hungary when he was very young. The denial of his visa astonished him and made him very angry. 

Many foreign-bom chemists who earn graduate degrees at U.S. universities convert their FI student visas to the nonimmigrant HIB visas, which let them work temporarily in the United States. These work permits allow their holders to stay no longer than 6 years and require that they re-... 

To hire one s own lawyer may be unnecessary. A foreign-bom chemist offered a job should ask if her employer sponsors petitions for immigrant visas. Some large Fipcos do so and, on behalf of newly hired scientists, use immigration attorneys or paralegal professionals. Alternatively, they outsource the work to specialized independent law firms. This practice, however, is one dependent on the corporate financial health it can be stopped short when budgetary constraints loom. 

The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) requires employers who want to use foreign temporary workers on H-2A visas to get a labor certificate from the Employment and Trainine Administration certifying that there are not sujficient, able, willing and qualified U.S. workers available to do the work. The labor standards protections of the H-2A program are enforced by The Wage and Hour Division. 

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