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I am Brazilian, I tried to get jobs in other countries multiple times and many times it failed due to reasons not related to my competency:

1. Rejected from working in a gamedev in Europe because I am not EU Citizen.

2. Lots of companies on USA have to follow some crazy tax rules or general regulations that make them not allowed to hire foreigners, don't even need to be military stuff. Noticed some companies won't even hire out of state.

3. Military, healthcare and many other industries for obvious reasons don't accept foreigners.

4. Several companies have some for reason or another have all employees working on the same time, meaning they refrain from hiring outside their timezones (thus no California companies for me, and no Europeans either)

5. A bunch of times had problems because mismatch of required education and how education work in different countries.

> Noticed some companies won't even hire out of state.

Hiring out of state (but still in the US) means dealing with taxes for the other state, plus probably adds complexity and maybe cost to providing health insurance. The best quality per dollar spent on health insurance in the US is often for plans that have little or very poor coverage (that is, pays few or no providers, especially for non-emergency care) outside a given state or geographic area.

Yes, that's right, lots of people (and companies) in the US pay outrageous-by-OECD-standards rates for health insurance that barely even applies in most of the country.

Assuming your timezone is GMT-3, it's 5 hour difference with California and 4 hours with most of Europe. At least one of them should be manageable (either waking up around 5am or going to bed around 3am).

To me it is, but employers don't care for that. They just refuse to hire. (I regularly sleep around 3am, I am total night owl)

Based on your comment, I assume these are all under the context of full time employment? Do you find the same barriers apply when attempting contracting (including factors others have noted in this thread)?

I tried everything, same issues. For example for contract many of these issues are even worse, because taxes, regulations on what kind of contractors may be hired, or local countries or cities requiring contractors to be registered locally, etc...

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