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> That means a citizen or have a green card

No, anything remotely close to the US government requires a full citizenship. I got slammed by that when I was in the middle of applications for scientific software companies which did government contracting on the side.

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Depends on what you do. Often managers don't even know so they just use "citizen" as rule to be safe.

Also worked for the military and we had a variety of citizens, non-citizens, green card holders and non-green card holders. We had to go through silly gymnastics on who can talk about what and work on what depending on their status.

Working on GovCloud requires ITAR which is citizen or "permanent resident" (green card). There are other positions that require a security clearance, but GovCloud does not. GovCloud is open to non-governmental customers who need to meet stricter requirements (it's not solely for government use).

> GovCloud is open to non-governmental customers

Some excellent naming there ;)

It's still pretty apt, the reason the non-government customers are in GovCloud is almost always because their customers are in the government. For example, if you want to sell a service to US government departments, you'll find it much easier to do so if you have a presence in GovCloud yourself.

You got that wrong. It depends if you need to be a citizen or not.

I've personally known permanent residents to work in government contracting.

For your case, if I had to guess, it's probably the physical building/facility they required you to work at had restrictions on unescorted non-citizens.

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