mutt - I have three words for you mate
"You lucky ba***rd" 
slim - I wish it were so easy to wait the 45 days, but at this stage that only applies to all the qualified folks in this world which leaves me standing in the aerobridge (errr...jetway) inhaling the jet fumes (and renigging on a job lead).
You're quite correct about the US citizens/Nationals not requiring a security check, just show a passport or birth cert (why should you guys get off easy ... look at McVeigh, et al) - I have since ammended my error. You're quite right though, reading between the lines, the powers that be would like nothing more than to have the opportunity to train every heavy jet pilot on this planet if they could, just to have the opportunity to conduct a security check on each one and see if they're terrorist material. Since they can't they'll just get as many of us as they can.
kenny - Yeah know howya feel mate, up s**t creek without a paddle. It's a pity (in your case) that
PR cannot even qualify you as a local
. The security check doesn't bother me in the least. All they're gonna find, other than being a fine upstanding Aussie who served his country, is that I got my first licence in the US 11 years ago, went to elementary school and college here, have held numerous visas, have five relatives (either citizens or PRs) here, have four other relatives educated (Uni) here, and my grandfather was a US State Dept Vice-Consul to the Orient... and do you think it makes that slightest scrap of difference??? Bollocks!?! I can't even apply for
PR (not that I was after it anyway). As long as the DoJ doesn't keep moving the goal posts my only option now is to tick off and get a 5700kg rating somewhere else in the world (anyone know of a reasonable KingAir 350 operator???) and then come back and knock on the door as a (dare I say it
)
professional pilot 
. Alternatively I'll just have to take my business to Canada for example. Time doesn't wait for anybody, not me and certainly not the DoJ. Wish you all the best, hopefully something will come up soon - maybe you could add 4500kg to your Seminole
. Keep in touch. Do you drink Coopers? I've got 2 Pale Ale stubbies left
!