Hey a question that seems to come up pretty often when completing online apps is if I am legally entitled or eligible to work in the USA. Being a Canadian and not yet having applied for a green card/Visa... should I respond No?
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Theoretically you should respond no. However, that will most probably send your application into the trash folder. Advice I've heard was to say yes, and if you get through the interviews - talk it over with HR, and maybe you'll get lucky and they will sponsor you. You would be taking risks because technically you lied on your application.
Hah, there is zero chance that flies under the rader. It's a fairly involved and costly process to sponsor a visa for someone, which is why companies generally don't like to do it unless there is some obvious need that outweighs the cost. It could be that you're an exec from overseas that is needed in the US for a while, or that you have a skillset a company here is having trouble filling at a certain rate, etc. But if you just flat out lie and say "yes I am legally entitled to work in the US", hoping a good interview will just "make it all better", you're not only fooling yourself, you're blackballing yourself at any company that might look at you in the future if you get your immigration shit figured out in a legitimate way. They will be PISSED that you wasted their time on interviews knowing full well you weren't eligible to work in the US.
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