Engineer - Dual Citizenship
Engineer - Dual Citizenship
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Hi all, chose this forum to ask about this issue because who else would be better to ask than those who are actively involved in actually running an engineering business?
I find myself at point in my career, because of local circumstances, that I am considering opportunities abroad in engineering. One of the considerations I have to work with is my dual citizen status (US/UK hold two passports).
Would this fact be of additional value to firms doing international work, if I was willing to live overseas with my family, when combined with my 11 years of civil work, degree and PE?
I find myself at point in my career, because of local circumstances, that I am considering opportunities abroad in engineering. One of the considerations I have to work with is my dual citizen status (US/UK hold two passports).
Would this fact be of additional value to firms doing international work, if I was willing to live overseas with my family, when combined with my 11 years of civil work, degree and PE?





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RE: Engineer - Dual Citizenship
RE: Engineer - Dual Citizenship
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There aren't that many international civil engineering companies. There are a few, but most tend to be domestic.
RE: Engineer - Dual Citizenship
your circumstances can only be of some benefit, in my opinion, in large international projects, probably accomplished in third countries, where employer can think of you as a person of wider multicultural background who will have better picture and who would fit easier in large and complex project teams.
that would be little related with PE issues. state structures of most of countries still use national legislation as a barrier to true competition, and even at places where there are very tiny difference in applicable engineering norms, there is little or not at all will to overcome those differences, on contrary there is strong tendencies to retain it.
it is especially grotesques when many, even large countries, use some foreign norm with slightly shifted requirements, sometimes on trivial level, than announce it as national norm using it as strong barrier for foreigner. if you are very familiar with such norm, you can easily learn about differences. that will not help you at all, however, as national legislation will consider all your previous experience null and void and will just grant you junior position, so you would need another lifetime to develop career in another country [sad]