It's so telling when certain folks don't know that 1/3 of New Yorkers foreign born, 1/3 are the first generation American born children of foreigners, and 1/3 go back farther than one generation. You can't find any other place on the planet that is as mixed as it is here. Don't you watch tv? There are movies and shows filmed even in LA and Toronto that 'take place' in NYC.
That someone claims to live within this hemisphere and not know that New York City has called been called THE Melting Pot of America by Americans is....... odd.
Bricklayer? You have to go to Germany to find a bricklayer? There are no brick layers in America? Anyone can get dozens of bricklayers just by driving into the the parking lot of Home Depot. Oh, but they're NATIVE native to North America, so yeah, had to go find one on the other side of the Atlantic?
Still doesn't make sense, you can't just sponsor them with the claim that you need them, you have to prove it, it has to make sense, it has to be a needed and high quality skill. Bricklayer is not something that is exactly considered a rare or particularly difficult in the USA.
And for that matter, why would you want to sponsor a bricklayer for? That's putting aside that you're giving away a job an American could have. There's just no need for it. It's also a temp job. Citizenship for a temporary gig?