>>>>He married a girl from the US.
>>>>Programmers do a very important job :) You might want to search the wanted adds (like hotjobs.com and such sites) for jobs that will provide visa)
>>>>Well there is always the green card lottery (I think INS still has that program).
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>>>I don't think I qualify for the GCL.
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>>>Either way, if "I" got a visa (say through employment), that still leaves the wife.....
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>>That's the most important reason why I warned about the H-1B visa - she gets a H4 visa, which basically promotes her into a nobody.
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>Are there really any companies still offering H1B visa's? I haven't got a degree and I haven't got 12 years experience in what I do.....seems like i'm stuffed.

Twelve years looks like too much... but then I'm not quite current with the H-1B requirements, I got mine in 1999 when it was a quite different world.

Maybe that uncle...?