Poll: Why do some translation agencies in Asia/Mid-East require job applicants to be located in USA？ 스레드 게시자: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Why do some translation agencies in Asia/Mid-East require job applicants to be located in USA？".
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| | | | | Don't know, don't care... | Oct 9, 2025 |
...and I don't think there are going to be all that many useful answers. So now, even the occasional non-AI poll is weird.
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What a question! Why should I know?
| | | | | in my language pair... | Oct 9, 2025 |
In my language pair they are looking for translators living in China! O_O
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Zea_Mays 
이탈리아
Local time: 05:57
영어에서 독일어
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(This is a question for a forum thread, not for a poll. Strange that it passed vetting by the staff.)
| | | | Lingua 5B
보스니아-헤르체고비나
Local time: 05:57
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What vetting? What staff?
Because they are US agency subcontractors or their assistant or similar. Or a US company outsourced this recruitment work to them, because their work is cheaper than what recruiters in the US charge.
Why would we care if it doesn’t apply to us?
| | | | | I have no idea! | Oct 9, 2025 |
Somebody please tell us why.
| | | | Daryo
Local time: 04:57
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| Preliminary question | Oct 10, 2025 |
Why would anyone in need of a translator or interpreter that must be based in USA use at all the services of an agency based outside of USA?
As much I can keep scratching my head, I can't find any explanations that could even charitably be labelled as 'positive' ...
Whenever I see an agency not from Serbia looking for translators not into/from any of their local languages it does not smell of roses to me.
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| Maybe taxes? | Oct 10, 2025 |
Could it be that if the applicant works remotely from the USA, the Asia/Mid-East LSPs save on paying working taxes in their location?
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Lingua 5B wrote:
Because they are US agency subcontractors or their assistant or similar. Or a US company outsourced this recruitment work to them, because their work is cheaper than what recruiters in the US charge.
Exactly
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