Senators Working on Bipartisan Bill to Allow More U.S. Visas for Indians

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5. Some jobs that require a high level of education are going unfilled.

The unemployment rate for some fields is nonexistent, there is more of a shortage of people to fill the jobs. But, VISAs are a short-sighted and short-term fix for the problem. The solution is twofold. First find kids that show aptitude for engineering, science, Math, and high skilled crafts jobs and pay a large part of those people's educational expenses. Second, increase salaries for those jobs, companies are afraid to increase salaries because when the fields reach the point when enough talent is available, it will be difficult to align salaries with that reality.

I favor paying for educations as the best route along with counseling as kids maturate through college. A kid that came in to be an engineer can make a shift to say, medicine, in college if engineering fields that are in dire need of talent are filling. The kid should face no penalty, as a matter of fact, his or her medical training should be paid for as long as that kid agrees to work five or more years in locations that need medical professionals.