The FAA will issue a private VFR only pilot certificate to to the holder of a valid foreign license with no testing or checkride. The first step is to confirm the validity of the foreign license. Without a current license to validate it's a non-starter.
Obviously your hours count. Normally to get a FAA ATP you have to hold a commercial and to get the commercial you have to have a private. With a valid foreign commercial or ATP you can skip the FAA private and commercial. But to get the ATP everyone has to go through the certificate training program, pass the written and pass a checkride. For a type rating on the ATP there has to be a record of ground and flight training.
The FAA guidance for issuing a foreign based certificate is here:
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