Training Your Replacement

In your above post, you said, "...by the end of April." They did not state that you could not quit sooner. Moreover, in many states employment is "at will" and you can be fired or you can quit whenever and whyever.

Look for a new job now. leave when you get it. There is no requirement for you to hang on until they hire someone else. [Unless you signed a contract to that, which may or may not be enforcable...]

Since your employer gave you such a long time to look for a new job, take advantage of it. They were being nice, really. But see if they'll help you out even more by allowing you time off for interviews, and if they'll let you search during the day, or even place phone calls to headhunters.

... So don't do anything unprofessional. Finding another job and getting the heck out of there ASAP is OK. Failing to perform your duty of training your replacement is not. These days the job market is a buyer's market; a lot of people are not even replaced. It's a good time to improve your sucking-up skills. Hopefully we'll eventually be able to live in a world where we don't have to practice them every single day. But you will always encounter situations where they are needed, so it's wise to develop the discipline to deploy them on demand. Life is more unfair now than it has been in a long, long time, but it's never been fair and it never will be.

Yes, my current supervisor is being quite suportive, actually. I have paid time to go to interviews and so forth. And I'm continuing to do my job in a professional manner while I'm still there.
I guess the way they manuevered to get rid of me has left me with an "I don't owe you" sort of feeling.
I am one of four people to which this happened. We all went from average or better than average on our last reviews to 'non-employable' on this review, mostly for very odd reasons (I was dinged because I didn't show enthusiasm when I was informed I was going to take over the duties of a departing employee in addition to everything else I already do. C'mon. Now it's a job requirement to be ENTHUSIASTIC about being over-worked?)
Ok, enough ranting.

I was in a similar situation about 3 years ago. I was Netork Admin at a lerge company. The IT depertment had for years been mismanaged and run by incompetents. (example: we had 1 NT server that handled DHCP for 1000 users, and hosted our Lotus Notes. It had NEVER been backed up in over 3 years!).

Finally, a new director was hired, (sadly, still under the old VP). His job was to bring in new consultants and staff. He started creating new positions at nearly double the salary we were getting. We were instructed to "train" these people who were somewhat junior to us. I asked for more money (no chance). The guy in the office next to me refused. He was escorted out. I plugged away, did the minimum work I could get away with, and spent most of my day looking for a new job. By this time they'd hired another new manager for me, and wasn't surprised when I quit.

If they're being decent to you, and it seems they are, do what you need to do and look for more work.

I would not train your replacement,
I would seek legal counsol and fight them especially if they are replacing you with an H1b ot L1 doesn't matter one bit it stinks in Rotterdam!
I feel for your pedictament.!!!

well the bottom line is you need to find another job and soon.

Germany has a green card program for IT.
if you have a 4 year degree that gets you into the running. I was over in Belgium for a year working on two different projects and enjoyed a better rate over there than here, and I may go back as it is not getting any better here.

I can supply the info if anyone is interested.

chow!