While I do NOT see it likely that principal applicant/holder of E3 would manage green card through employment (airline), do not forget that their married spouse can work without restrictions and can later be the principal 'green card' visa or H1 initially, with right skills and employer/job.
Those who think USA is only fat females, need to actually stop watching movies taking place in SE US and go to NW US in person. True, past 30 it is less likely due to lifestyle, but get over that cliche. Nevermind the amount of Asian females that do not seem to inherit the 'fat gene' Native American and African descent people do.
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why not going to certain Asian carriers to even out the crap regional pay? After all, once Aussies get to their domestic/regional, they get more take home pay for the cost of living/market than equivalent in US. The main issue for them is bridgeing piston GA to airline with the hiring/market as it is there. I met 1000hr+ guy with UK ancestry near London not long ago, talking 'space shuttle requirements' to join Aussie regional. So he went to UK to get some 737/320 time before going home.
We're talking pilots who can't get ahead due to silly job market/high criteria for jobs, who'd go for the E3 option, make the most of it for 2 or 4 years and then likely head back. Yes, not being apologetic regarding the T&Cs and need to improve them. Aviation is global and for the vast majority part the US pilots went to work all over the world, depending on coin and passports, of all sorts of experience when furloughed etc,
so please do not be so hypocritical 'defending own patch' when you've been conquering jobs successfully all over the world.
Why is newhire/junior-ish FO at regional more of an issue, moving countries, than experienced PIC or senior FO going out of US to work abroad? It'd not be more than tip of iceberg, as the 1500hrs (no other R-ATP would cut it for non ERAU, non US exmil pilots) are guys who already have worked in GA in Australia (or NZ, Africa, Indonesia etc, forced to relocate for early jobs). If anything, it'd improve newbie job market, vertical movement across Pacific - the job market is much smaller and those who actually venture on E-3 path, would be drop in ocean on US job market.