In the U.S. it's very hard to hire foreign nationals. But the compensation in the U.S. is higher than in many other countries.

So they use an actual US citizen as a proxy that applies to the job or they borrow their credentials

Alternatively there is obviously identity theft.

On a side note, many Americans move in to my city while keeping their remote US jobs 🤣

Thanks by the way for explaining to me.

the incentive and result can be very bad 😞

and I don’t believe they are from north korea if you know what I mean…

Now as a person who was born under severe sanctions, employers didn't (and wouldn't) bother to check if am legally eligible to work with them because they don't like to deal with those type of problems which is understandable. However, when people have no legal options, they end up doing illegal things. Now, I personally do not condone or support illegal activities but wanted to highlight the ethical and moral aspects of it 🙂

If Steve Jobs wasn't adopted by the Jobs family, he would have been stuck in Syria and no one heard about him 😁. His biological father is I think from Homs, Syria.

Unrelated, but I want to say that I worked with people from all over the world, I found working with Americans to be the best experience to be honest in terms of communication and cooperation.