A friend of mine is an EU citizen looking to find a visa sponsoring job in the US, with an automotive strategy / operations background. Does anybody have any advice on job hunting when not a US citizen? Or has gone through this process? Any tips or advice is much appreciated

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I went through this when searching for a US job as a Canadian. For starters, I would check out the h1b information because I think that they are still not allowing new h1b’s into the US. There may also be a specific EU/US visa type that will allow your friend to work here that is not an h1b. But generally your friend will have more luck searching for jobs with bigger companies - larger companies generally means more need for people and better processes in place that allow for visa sponsorship. When your friend knows which companies they’re targeting, reach out to the executives/managers/recruiters via LinkedIn, expressing interest in working for xyz company and that they’d be happy to have a zoom/call to chat further.

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That Chinese/Indian limit is the country quota on green card application, H1B doesn’t have a country cap.

Internal transfer is likely the only way if he has no other visa options (i.e. already has H1B or something like that)

Marriage helps.

Join Tesla Berlin or GM Europe and apply for an internal transfer within the Company to move to the US would be the easiest and most probable.

Could also apply for the diversity visa lottery as well as that visa doesn’t require sponsorship. They’ll have better odds for a diversity visa in the lottery as a EU citizen since not many EU people apply for it.

If it is an internal transfer, he will not need a H1B ( which has a lottery sometimes or at least have a quote every year), he can do some other types of visa. If he is manger and above, that’s better.

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