[aurizon]

Open a US corporation that you invoice under so you are tax compliant. American money laundering restriction processes are onerous and add all manner of hassles to US companies paying foreigners. All the usual deductions have to be held back and remitted in strange ways that most are not familiar with. This means the company registers with the IRS and gets it's compliance account then pays you and you get aware of all these deductions, and pay them. There is a tax treaty so you are only taxed once.

[greenyoda]

But invoicing through a corporation could only get him contracting work, not a full-time job.

[aurizon]

Now he has nothing, if he gets hired as a contractor he may be able to prove his chops and escalate to a foreign hire and show their payroll dept the procedures to follow