Employing workers who live outside the U.S. can be an effective option for staffing hard-to-fill positions when there are no feasible U.S. visa options. While many different kinds of visas exist, not many are up for grabs. In these cases, employers might want to consider offshoring, or hiring remote workers who live in other countries.

"It can be challenging to find a suitable and available visa option to hire foreign national workers," said Yova Borovska, an attorney with Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney in Tampa, Fla.

The benefits of hiring international talent include not only filling skills gaps but also gaining diverse perspectives and expanding a company's reach and access to new markets, said Bjorn Reynolds, CEO of Safeguard Global in Austin, Texas. Safeguard Global offers HR support in more than 170 countries. "Other countries have capitalized on these benefits and have even pioneered new visa processes to encourage the hiring of foreign talent."

Canada, in particular, has a visa framework that encourages the hiring of top foreign talent much better than U.S. visa programs do, said Mira Mdivani, an attorney with Mdivani Corporate Immigration Law Firm in Overland Park, Kan. Rather than losing international staff, some U.S. employers move their foreign-born staff to Canada when U.S. visas expire.

However, Mdivani said many employers "are weary of establishing a foreign operation just for the purposes of hiring abroad. They don't have the local expertise and are...

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