The Great Visa Chase; Expats on the edge as they await permanent status.(Jacky Teplisky's employment status in New York)

Crain's New York Business, December, 2006 by Marshall, Samantha

Byline: SAMANTHA MARSHALL It was during a manicure that Chilean-born real estate broker Jacky Teplisky, 46, began to feel like a true New Yorker. Life had been lonely the first few months after her company transferred her to Manhattan from Madrid. Most of her social contact was with other transplants from South America and Israel, where she grew up.

But one day she began talking with a native over some French tips. The woman became Ms. Teplisky's first real New York friend and introduced her to a circle of women who, among other things, taught her local dating rules. "The nail salon was my turning point,'' the executive recalls. New York is a magnet for overseas professionals who arrive on visas and quickly gain a foothold, and most of them can tell...

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