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I received an email this morning which is from a leading immigration publisher quoting an article on the Wall Street Journal A Wall Street Journal which points out that an infusion of innovators is even more needed in a recession.

Companies founded by immigrants include Yahoo, eBay and Google. Half of Silicon Valley start-ups were founded by immigrants, up from 25% a decade ago. Some 40% of patents in the U.S. are awarded to immigrants. A recent study by the Kauffman Foundation found that immigrants are 50% likelier to start businesses than natives. Immigrant-founded technology firms employ 450,000 workers in the US.

Immigrants if recruited correctly, with proper screening procedures, that is suitable for the International movement of skilled and professional people, in order to fill skills gaps do have a lot to contribute to any economy that has a shortage.

Most of the issues about taking American jobs are taking things to the extreme for professionals in silicon valley, a good American candidate will not be turned down for an H-1B applicant as it doesn’t make sense to do so.

1. There is no guarantee they will get the visa

2. Its expensive to do

3. It takes time

Now, with H-2B we have a different situation which we have witnessed first hand, problems are aplenty due to very poor quality applicants being pushed so that some agents can make a quick buck. However, if done properly and by the right recruiters for skilled jobs like welders, fitters and many other blue collar skills that ARE hard to find in USA even during a recession, then this is a blessing to the employers.

What never fails to surprise me in USA, and this is not a criticism, its an observation, but there seems to be very little awareness that there is a worldwide competition for the very best migrant workers.

Canada for example needed masses of skilled workers from Nurses to Skilled welders and Pipe fitters and they were succeeding in bringing in from a very limited international pool, along with Australia the Canadians have recognized the need for migrant workers and what they can offer to the economy.

Perhaps this such an issue for America as the market tends to go for the Mexican workers anyway, but the Australians, Canadians and British are cherry picking the very best from Philippines, India and other countries and they are taking all the fluent English speaking skilled tradesmen.

Australia has been at the forefront of attracting the very best workers through a good visa system that allows businesses to rely on faster and more consistent results than US employers may enjoy, due to the lottery at the US embassy for applicants to get visas after nearly 4 months of the H-2B process from the employer while they tried to get through Department of Labor and USCIS.

Its not unusual for American employers to be left disappointed with no visas at the end but this would be highly unlikely in other countries.

Article Source: Anthony Michael Hayes, EzineArticles.com

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