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Visual FoxPro
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>As you know, I have desire to work abroad - in the US (FoxPro's motherland), UK (very interesting country with wide-spreading MS products), Australia (huge field for FoxPro expansion), New Zealand (good possibility to prove that FoxPro is the most power product). I have sent a lot of my CV to many companies in those countries. But only UT members honestly and directly (thank you very much for truth) answered that they do not need alien developers.
>My question is: is it good to have desire like my? Is it OK? Or something wrong with me? -)

The trouble as I see it, Sergey, is that the market for VFP developers is shrinking, not growing.
In my city, of over 2,500,000 people, we don't have a VFP User Group!!! We had one but it dissolved around the time of the Gartner report. Mike Yearwood tried to resurrect it but I saw NO responses to him when he tried. I did almost 4 years of AS/400 work because VFP jobs weren't to be found in this area.
This is extreme, to be sure, but reflects the trend.

As for "aliens", I suppose that Sep. 11 has caused lots of re-thinking on that issue, probably in most of the countries you named and certainly in the U.S. In addition, it *IS* a lot of responsibility on the part of the company/person who sponsors an alien. And many of the companies that might be hiring technical staff may also disappear as fast as they appeared in the first place!

Nothing is wrong with you or your desires. Hell, most of us in the countries you named had our forefathers (or later, including themselves) arriving there because of similar desires!

I also think that the Internet makes it seem easier than it actually is to go to one of those countries you named. I don't know, of course, because i haven't gone to any other country as an immigrant myself. But we can 'talk' so easily like this that it seems that it should be a simple thing to simply get the permissions to GO to the people we talk with so often.

Also, as I understand things, the countries you named are still LOTS EASIER to get in to than other countries of Europe or Asia. I have no idea about Africa.

So I guess I would continue to try, but cite other credentials than (just) FP/VFP. I guess you know people who have relatives who immigrated to the countries you named. Ask them what it took and how they did it.

I have worked with only a handful of immigrants, some from Yugoslavia and some from Russia and I have to say that they were far more knowledgeable of FP/VFP and far more imaginative and far more attentive to detail than the 'homegrowns' I worked with. (Here one may call himself 'knowledgeable' of language xxx if some co-worker on the same floor as him uses that language. Here I have heard of ads requiring 5 years experience in .NET).

good luck
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