Hawkeye - you seem know this "business" very well.
OK, so my situation. I was actually in a Tenure-track position even before I knew, in 2005, at age 31... then I came here, trading, for the third time in my life, really good faculty positions. You and everyone can see than most likely this "progression" since then has been a progression of an alkie.
So now, if I commit to my current job, they will cover and arrange all those green card things. I recognize that when I questioned all this, I actually also questioned my whole commitment to sobriety.