It doesn't seem so bad from Canada at least (Score 1)

My cousin will be starting a co-op work placement of I believe 4 months at Amazon.com in Seattle. I don't know the details of what's involved with setting it up, but it doesn't seem so bad, there's a number of people from her school who will be in the Seattle area specifically at the same time. It may be that it's substantially easier to arrange this sort of thing for Canadian citizens, I don't know; but arranging a short term student placement is likely easier than a longer term placement. The co-op work placements usually get paid a decent amount but I don't know what she'll be making for this.