The recruitment drive targets the kind of highly skilled foreign workers facing increased scrutiny under the Trump administration's immigration restrictions.
The Ukrainian leader has argued elections in wartime are impossible. But with U.S. and European help, he said Tuesday, a vote could be held within three months.
In his second term, the president has oscillated between condemning Russia and threatening sanctions to berating Ukraine and pressuring it to give up its land.
Relations between the U.S. and Europe hit a low point as President Donald Trump's security strategy slams Europe but largely ignores threats from Russia and China.
Despite promising to stay on the sidelines this administration, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has become enmeshed in critical diplomatic negotiations.
Record numbers of undocumented immigrants from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia have been deported this year, and there's hardly any support to help them reintegrate.