Just to humor me: do you ever get calls from other U.S. companies that want to hire you away, H1-B and all?
Several years ago, a head hunter did call and offered me a job up in the NE. Instead I got a minor promotion here. But I never went through a recruiter for my current position. It was from a job fair at a trade show. When I saw the ad for this position, and the reply card had a section for 'experience and qualifications' I simply wrote 'this was my PhD thesis.' It was pure serendipity that I found this position. It is very rare for a PhD to do work very similar to thesis work and the fit was perfect. In 6 months I turned a lab labeled by the engineering staff "The Mosuleum" into a very productive lab. I could not believe that a company as big and promient as mine didn't know diddly about what that alb could do. Even at symposia, I still meet other scientists who are not taking full advantage of the tools they have available to them.