Ok Brigid....
And no your foreign experience is not enough to ask Uncle Sammy for a ticket, and the main reason is that all you use the metric system and some other reasons, you would be and are a danger if you try to use American Technical manuals.
Care to elaborate on this? "Some other reasons" you say. Like what? We use the metric system? For what? Which units do we use for which purposes? In which countries?
When I work on Boeings where do the "Technical manuals" come from?
The FAA doesn't issue license numbers per se and like other Federal agencies they use our Social Security number. So tell me how you can get a license number with out a Social Security card issued to you.
I'm sure one of the many non-US citizen, non US resident FAA A&P tickets holders who frequent this forum will tell you. Unless of course you find the answer first, after all you learned all about aviation regulations, right?