Fees for US work visas contributing to training and scholarships

United States, 1st April: Findings of a latest report reveal that the US work visa fees are providing funding to training and scholarships along with valuable contribution to anti-fraud activities.

Released by the National Foundation for American Policy, the report states that the US work visa program must be continued seeing the valuable contribution by the US work visa fees.

It further maintains that the US must support the procedures that allow US businesses to recruit foreign workers in the US. As per the official statistics made available, nearly 58,000 students were awarded scholarships under the National Science Foundation.

Moreover, around 100,000 US workers were provided training from the labor department, the report asserts.

The US work visas, commonly known as US H-1B visas enable foreigners to live and work in the US for a temporary period of time.

Normally, the US H-1B visas allow foreign workers to stay and work in the US for a period of up to six years and also result in US permanent residency permit for such workers or the US Green Card.

However, the only prerequisite is that the foreign workers must be sponsored by the employer in the US. US H-1B visas are criticized for providing a cheap source of required qualified and professional workforce to the US businesses.

Meanwhile, several high-tech firms have been urging for cutting restrictions on US H-1B visas and increasing the limit of such visas.

For long, several US businesses have reiterated the requirement for allowing foreigners possessing requisite education qualifications and skills not found in the native US workers to immigrate to the US and get employed here.

According to the executive director of the National Foundation for American Policy, Stuart Anderson, employers in the US require foreign professionals to work in the US. Moreover, the US businesses have reiterated that such foreigner workers bring in requisite skills that are not found to be available in the US.

Another fact worth consideration is that such workers do not take the jobs from the native US workers and rather complement the US workforce, Anderson maintained. The report further maintains that the businesses in the US making use of US work visas have contributed around $2.3 billion in training fees and scholarships while around $700 million towards anti-fraud fees.