Gaining American citizenship

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411A

I remember when you flew for an European company with bases in Europe.

Dont you think that we have lots of European Pilots looking for jobs and who paid for their own rating as you state the Americans do?

I must have been mistaken when I thought at that time that you need to have a European licence and the right to live and work in Europe.

I wish that everyone was as law abiting as you want everyone else to be.

I know many good american pilots who work in Europe and have lost their jobs and pension in the US and for european carriers in other part of the world.

Now the US carriers are recalling after restructuring after 9/11.
I suspect that there will be lack of pilots in the near future.

However we Europeans welcome our US colleques when they are needed unlike the US, there is no way we can get validations on our european licence nor even if we had a FAA licence there is no way we can work and live in the US unless going through many years of process.

I ask you 411A do you agree with this one way favorism or do you think the US should open the doors for europeans as we do for the US citizens.

Have you forgotten that a European company opened the doors for you when young European pilots who paid for their own rating were looking for jobs?

If you plan to answer this I ask you to keep to the issue and not by the usual sarcasm we see on this website from you.