Johnny-

I think Rachel came to the US at a time when there were about 150,000 extra visas for IT people under a special law that expired after a set number of years. Even I got a programming job without having worked for most of the previous seven years, except to teach English in Japan, and not having programmed for 17. It's a whole different ball game now, even for IT people. The US is in a recession. Unemployment is rising. We have a whole lot of financial people who are losing their jobs. Bear Stearns, anyone?

Spalding's husband has done the right thing, worked for a large international company that will transfer him.