A school in Oregon is offering F1 visas for brazilian CFIs.
The propose is that a holder of a Flight Instructor License issued by Brazilian CAA (ANAC) would go to the US, convert his/her license to CPL, do the CFI and start the OPT, working at least the first year as CFI at the school.
The second year of OPT is open, so you can continue at the school or change job. They advertise with the history of some 3 guys who trained with them and flew the CRJ for some months during the second year of OPT.
That experience wold be of great value here in Brazil, where Azul sometimes hires FO with as low as 150h TT to fly brand new ATR 72 or Embraer E-190/195 and Avianca Brazil sets its minimum at 500h TT for the A320 family. As well it can open the doors at Copa Airlines of Panama, who asks 1000h TT of anything with wings and an engine to fly the B737NG across the continent.
My question is, is it true? Is really possible that one with pilot license (foreing) can do this process and work for two years, under the F1 visa?