Foreign Hires
- Share via
* Re “Open the Executive Suite to the Free Market,” Commentary, May 16: Jan Hack Katz says it can take 18 months for the INS to allow a foreign hire entry. Over the last two years, the 36 H-1 visas approved for our company have typically required 45 to 60 days to process; the longest was 92 days.
The Department of Labor, not INS, requires that each foreign hire be paid prevailing pay rates. Even if there was no such requirement, we must provide competitive pay or see our new hires be lured away by other companies. Both our experience and the constant flow of international executive hires reported in the trade press cast doubt on the author’s premise.
ROGER D. HOFF, Director
Marketing and Sales
Transnational Computer
Technology, El Segundo
Inside the business of entertainment
The Wide Shot brings you news, analysis and insights on everything from streaming wars to production — and what it all means for the future.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
