Originally Posted by
deftone
Hey, US immigrant here (and now US Citizen). First of all, SSN and TSA clearance have nothing to do with having a right to work in the US. Plus visas are not issued based on offer letters, an employer would need to sponsor you, in itself a quite expensive and time consuming task. Coming to work in the US just won't work out for you if you insist on following this path. If your girl is a citizen then that is a guaranteed path to your green card. When I got mine it took around 6 months.
I am currently in flight school.
What if you are a citizen and wanted to explore getting to 1,500 hours overseas as an FO and then coming back to the US? I would be willing to pay for the type rating on my own if need be. There have been a few threads of people that have flown in the middle east or asia and have come back to fly for the majors, I do not know what their experience was before working overseas.
What FAR's cover this?