Originally Posted by RJ Captain

Surely not. The E2B (also known as EB-2) visa process takes 18 months at a minimum and is sponsored by the company which costs significantly than hiring on other Visa's. Another forum has mentioned that Spirit is looking at hiring Australian Pilots on the E-3 Visa which is the temporary non-immigrant visa.

The work rules at Spirit seem to be quite good combined with only a few years to upgrade so why would there be expected mass attrition?