I need some hivemind help. I am working on a grant application and want to say that we provide help for employees from other countries in obtaining visas and acclimating themselves.. It has to be in governmentese. This is what I have now, which sucks and is redundant: We have worked with employees from diverse nationalities in providing support and assistance with work visas and other assistance.

Of course, you kind of have pop culture written into your contract.

I'm fairly sure it played a large part in my hiring.

You'll be happy to know, boss lady has directed copy writer to write a blog post we're tentatively calling "Smart People Being Smart" With shows like Justified, White Collar and Leverage.

Scrappy, that sounds like a tailor-made Allyson question to me.

Scrappy, I'd go more with your description of what you're trying to say: We assist employees from various countries in obtaining work visas and acclimating themselves to US culture. Or something.

Coveragewise, yeah. It's no more worn than the jeans I've seen people wear. Less than a lot, in fact.

Then I don't see why it wouldn't be fine.

We have worked with employees from diverse nationalities in providing support and assistance with work visas and other assistance.

We have provided support to employees from diverse nationalities in obtaining work visas and other assistance.

Or something like that. Might help if you could be more specific about the type of assistance.

if the skirt is generally work-appropriate or not.

For me the only question would be length / coverage. I've worn totally appropriate denim skirts at jobs where jeans were never appropriate, so...

I think that as long as it's not too short, it would be appropriate anywhere jeans are appropriate. Or, what Cass said.

The acclimating part is generally referred to as "settlement".

Modifying Dana's:

We have provided support to employees from diverse nationalities in obtaining work visas and with settlement in their new communities.

I wore a denim skirt to my Oxford interview. Twenty years later I'm suddenly getting all appropriate?

My god, I can't believe my mother let me wear that. My blouse was very pretty, though.

I need more steel-toed shoes and more denim skirts, I'm suddenly convinced. But I don't need more shoes. And I don't need more clothes.

Now I'm worried that settlement is a Canadian usage, b/c every immgration reference I find to it is from Canada.