<p>Do non-US citizens have to go through lot of hassle to work in the US after graduation? If say you have only a student's visa will it be hard to find a professional job?</p>
<p>Not just hassle, they end up not being able to</p>
<p>It will be almost impossible to find a permanent job in the US. Be sure that whatever you study will enable you to find employment in your home country.</p>
<p>It is ridiculously difficult now and will probably get harder. Look up the H1-B if you’re interested.</p>
<p>This is really disappointing because my home country has very little opportunity for working with my intended major I’m passionate about. Sad.</p>
<p>but let’s say you do find a job to work in the US after college. Are you even allowed to stay?</p>
<p>I’ve been just looking into this and I think it’s possible if you really are outstanding, and your employer is willing to do a lot of paperwork on your behalf.
I guess I’ll have to do my best at college.</p>
<p>lol. most of you are looking at it iin simple terms of staying and not stayin–do some more reserach and understand the key terms</p>
<p>Yes its a *<strong><em>ing hassle. Excuse the language, but I am french canadian, and have lived here for my whole high school career. My mother had to pay a lawyer something like 8000 bucks for the process. The whole thing can take up for more than two years, and the paper work is insane. You get tested for a *</em></strong>load of diseases, and that alone takes months to get the results for. After all the paper work is done, and sent to whoever checks it, thats a whole other step, and you get called to get you fingerprinted ect. </p>
<p>They also ask you stupid ******** questions like, how will you benefit the United States of America…What the *<strong><em>, you just want to *</em></strong>ing work and make money.</p>
<p>Im sorry but this topic gets me so unbelievably mad.</p>
<p>How do they expect mexicans to pay 8000 bux to become legal.</p>
<p>ratboy90: The amount of fresh college grads allowed to ‘stay’ each year is capped by Congress, I believe currently at 65K a year (exceptions are I believe academic institutions, possibly non-profits). Generally significantly more than 65K people get a job offer and so not everybody who has an offer gets to ‘stay’, because there is a large element of luck in addition to the paperwork and expense you + potential employer have to undertake.</p>
<p>@Agneisse
okay. thanks a lot for the info. I didn’t know that.</p>
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There is? My luck is pretty bad. :(</p>
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<p>They don’t. They just give out greencards like candy at the border. I say deport them all and give everyone who’s a legal immigrant automatic permanent residency.</p>
<p>To original OP – dont expect to be able to work in the US, no matter how brilliant you are, unless its by a miracle. The current administration and the current economic feeling is against the idea, no matter how useful some people that want to stay and work in the country are for it. Silly, but true nonetheless.</p>
<p>@mhmm
I will graduate from college after five years. If the economic situation improves do you think chances will improve significantly?</p>
<p>Bilgunn: ‘Chances’ depend on the # of people who want to work in the US (a lot) versus the # of spots Congress authorises (comparatively very little) [plus your own brilliance etc.]. The US voter culture is generally against increasing the number of foreign work visas. Don’t bank on it.</p>
<p>hey Bilguun!
as what I’ve heard and seen, it is very possible to get a job after college in the USA.
Even you can find an internship during the summer break 
so good luck!</p>
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The problem is not finding a job, it is getting a visa. Internships during summer breaks are no problem because the work authorization comes along with your student visa. However, you need an actual work visa (most likely an H-1B) if you want to work longer than a couple of months. The bad news is that the number of H-1B visas are capped and the number of applicants exceeds the number of visas by a multiple. They literally have to run a lottery to decide who even gets a visa interview!</p>
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<p>Chances will be most probably be worse. Sure, more employers may want to employ you, but the ratio of applicants to H-1B slots will decrease as there is a fixed number of slots per year for H-1B.</p>
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I would assume the applicants:visas ratio would increase if there were more applicants for a constant number of visas ;)</p>