Just curious: was the student visa program established so that foreign students?

Question

...could come to the USA, get an education, and then decide they want to stay?

Or,

so that they could get an education while being exposed to the "American way of life," and then GO BACK to their native lands, taking the American point of view with them, and contributing to the development of a thriving middle-class, in those countries??

It seems like it has turned into some sort of scheme for foreigners to get a toe-hold in America. Maybe it needs some revision?

Answer 1

Well, since big business is paying - errrrr - making 'contributions' that is to those in politics - they make the claim that people in the United States are not wanting to fill the positions and thus there is a "need".

Sad thing is that many United States citizens are being passed over by people from other countries because they hire them way below the going rate for the job opening.

Hey, I go to church with a man that literally WROTE several of the college textbooks for computer networking and the like and he was LAID OFF only to be replace by 2 people from another country that was paying them even less than the people that they put them over. An example of what Bill Gates and those like him are after if you read or listened to any of his comments before congress on the work visa discussion recently. He has found work again - but a white male over 50 going out into the work force has an uphill fight. He took a $20,000 a year cut in pay - but he is working.

The original thought of why such was encouraged is totally lost.

When you have people going before congress to tell them that they need to up the visas for high skilled workers, even if there are American workers already here and more than able to do the work - there is a problem that needs to be addressed.

It is time for the American government to start looking to the welfare of its citizens and not to the will of big business.

Answer 2

The answer is yes. It was designed to permit foreign governments and households to send their brightest students to the US and then return home and spread the benefits of an enlightened society and democracy.

It also was used to attract the very brightest to stay here in the US since we were/are turning out fewer and fewer engineers, scientists, etc. which are the skills most often studied here by students from abroad.

Answer 3

I think that the student visa program was designed to attract the best and brightest (with money) from other countries to study here and hopefully like the US so much that they decide to stay here permanently. We were able to harness talented students with US education (without investing money in their tuition) to finally work here. Sadly, we have very few people here who even consider going to the university.^

Answer 4

You should be grateful for those people with american education that decide to stay here...

they use the education to the benefit of the country instead of taking it back with them..