hoojeuk

Hi,
Can a US employer contract me, as a company, to work for them rather than them employing me outright?

There must be work visas to get round this no?

Many thanks,


Hooje

Agresao

A lot of US companies in the high tech sector are employing people (foreign
workers too) they later place with different companies to do contact work.
Most of the time however, you are an employee of the contractor company
(also called a body-shop sometimes) and are paid a fixed salary. There is no
visa for individual contract workers.

"hoojeuk" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > Hi,
    > Can a US employer contract me, as a company, to work for them
    > rather than them employing me outright?
    > There must be work visas to get round this no?
    > Many thanks,
    > Hooje
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Gerhard Fiedler

as a matter of fact, they can contract you, as a foreign company -- as
long as you (or any other employee of that company) doesn't work in
the US. you can come here on a tourist visa and close business deals,
but you are not allowed to do the work here.

On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 22:06:24 GMT, Agresao wrote:

    >A lot of US companies in the high tech sector are employing people (foreign
    >workers too) they later place with different companies to do contact work.
    >Most of the time however, you are an employee of the contractor company
    >(also called a body-shop sometimes) and are paid a fixed salary. There is no
    >visa for individual contract workers.
    >"hoojeuk" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    >news:[email protected]...
    >> Hi,
    >> Can a US employer contract me, as a company, to work for them
    >> rather than them employing me outright?
    >> There must be work visas to get round this no?
    >> Many thanks,
    >> Hooje

hoojeuk

Hmm, that's abit wierd!

as a matter of fact, they can contract you,


..so great, but I cant do the work they want doing - THERE!?

Sometimes this is impossible!

Surely this is not the case?

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On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 07:23:16 +0000, hoojeuk wrote:


    > Hi,
    >
    > Can a US employer contract me, as a company, to work for them
    > rather than them employing me outright?

Yes. There are two ways to do this. First, you can work outside the US and
just visit for meetings and certain other permitted purposes. In that
case, all you'd need is a business visitor visa (or visa waiver).

The other possibility is to have the employer sponsor you for an H-1B visa
just like for any other employee. The fact that you are receiving your
salary in a different way (as contractor rather than employee) is not all
that relevant. However, many of the terms of an H-1B do require you to
work more like an employee. For instance, you have to have a set number of
hours, and get paid a certain amount per hour or per month.

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