State GOP official may have violated visa law

[davidinalameda]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/23/PLIBV76FS.DTL

A Canadian hired by the California Republican Party to do political work on a coveted H-1B visa appears to be in violation of immigration law because he is also earning money from another employer, federal officials said this week.
Christopher Matthews, a Canadian citizen, was hired in 2007 as full-time deputy political director, with responsibility for handling campaign operations and information technology for the country's largest state Republican Party operation, U.S. Department of Labor records show. He currently works for the state GOP as a political coordinator, said Hector Barajas, spokesman for the California Republican Party.
The state Republican Party applied for an H-1B visa on behalf of Matthews to fill the job of "political consultant" and was granted a visa labor certification in March 2007.
The Canadian's three-year H-1B visa is valid until Sept. 9, 2010, government records show.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

1. This doesn't even make sense,

since it would appear he obtained the TN professional visa AFTER obtaining the H-1B visa, the TN visa would make him ineligible for permanent residency. And a foreigner on an H-1B visa is allowed "Concurrent Employment" which doesn't count towards the H-1B quota and is really just a matter of paperwork and I would have to believe two wings of the republicans could work that out.