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Is it legal to hire someone in the US from a foreign country because the hiring manager is not fluent in English and needs someone with fluency in a foreign tongue, when other qualified candidates DO speak English? I lost an engineering job with a fortune 500 company once, for a job in California because I believe I did not speak Russian.

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That's an employment law question but I don't believe as a general rule that it's a violation to require a foreign language.

It looks like the issue is a little complicated, according to this website, they can but it the examples given seem to be a little more pervasive than just a single manager not speaking English: https://www.shihabimmigrationfirm.com/employment-based-immig...

On the other hand, if the product or intended market involved a foreign language it would definitely be okay.

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