Seeking info on importing non-USA pilots
Sticking my neck out, here, & I hope the super-patriots will be gentle with me (cringe), but I know from nothing about what non-USA citizens need to do/have in order to be employed in USA.
I'm sure there must be umpteen posts on PPRuNe explaining this to the ignorant; but what to feed into the search engine? Respondents need not necessarily re-type old info, just a few references to threads or publically available texts/articles would give me as much as I need . . .
Of course, many will want to jealously protect the USA employment market for helicopter pilots; before you get all steamed up, take note that the problem is there seem to be 0 (zero) job-hunting CFI's in the USA weighing 120 pounds or less.
And that's the thrust of this project: finding flyweight R22 pilots. Interesting form of discrimination, no?
[Another (but whimsical) question: is it even legal in the USA any more to ADVERTISE for particular physical attributes? (Hmmm, "Wanted. Sumo wrestlers, minimum weight 400 pounds, must be ugly as sin, I.Q. less than room temperature.")]
Watching the hubbub over migrant wetback laborers from Mexico for many years hasn't taught me much except that there's an enormous porosity to our southern border, and that it's routine for those folks to get repeatedly deported so they can sneak back again.
Not so easy for those folks who are from the other side of the world. So let's do it legally. And what can I read about THAT?