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You’d need to ask the project team to confirm, but generally you’re being placed as another resource on a client’s team and your day to day management and ownership of deliverables is by the person at the client managing that team, rather than EY managing you. This distinction in oversight is typically reflected in the contract with the client.
Basically it means doing operational work that an employee would ordinarily do. If there is a team of 8 widget makers and they bring you in as a “consultant” but really you are just the 9th widget maker, that is staff aug. PMO can be, is not necessarily, staff aug. if the widgets in my example are projects that you run and you report to a client FTE program manager, you are probably staff aug.
The h1b visa does not legally allow you to be placed in a staff augmentation role. Basically to prevent the visa holders from taking an Americans job but honestly i feel there is such a thin line between consulting and staff augmentation
That's so interesting I didn't know that. Thanks for educating me.
Why is this related to your visa? Curious
I know Canada at least is really hard on not wanting to let in foreigners doing work that a Canadian could be doing. They will let you in if you are specialized, otherwise such as if you are staff aug, you will have a hard time getting in.
Interesting. What if you are already in the country?
Well presumably you would have needed to get a visa to enter in the first place. If your role changed later, you would presumably disclose that when it came up for renewal.
Not sure if any of that is relevant for OP, just my experience.
But isn’t it by firm, instead of project role? Like you’re at EY and they already decided that they couldn’t fill with an American. They wouldn’t look at the details of your day-to-day job? Or do they? That sounds bizarre
Canada does, can’t say for US.