Immigration Benefits

Immigration benefits of US are innumerable and multifold. You will get more and more advantages once you climb the ladder of immigration status to get the US citizenship. Immigration benefits include world class education, job opportunities, medical services attractive salary, acquirement of technological advanced environment and above all an excellent exposure to the global market.

Immigration benefits can be availed through citizenship, green cards, employment authorization, family based immigration, employment related immigration, inter country adoptions, asylum and refugee based and foreign student authorization.

The widely proposed immigration benefits are the gains in economic welfare. Immigrants provide labor and services at a lower cost compared to Native Americans. This has helped the employers to gain more profit and the common people are benefited from the cost reduction of products and services. Though this lowers the wages of Native American by 1% or approximately $44 billion per annum, yet the truth is that the funds are merely distributed to other sources. The employment benefits of immigration are about $10 billion annually.

It is being estimated that a large part of American brain consists of Asians particularly Chinese and Indians. Many of the top scientists and doctors in America are non Americans.

One of the most desired immigration benefits is the increase in cultural diversity. The interaction of different cultures with American culture has resulted in various ethnic restaurants, cultural centers, religious monuments, entertainment industry, etc. but employees are not benefited much from this, but the common people have a spice to add in their life.

One major problem of cultural diversity is the costs incurred by the government to control crime, ethnic violence, and religious fights and so on. The maximum immigration benefits come when the lifestyle standards of the immigrants rise. If the immigrants get good jobs with good salaries, then automatically they will have to pay more taxes. Further, they would become an active consumer

Immigration benefits for the immigrant include the ability to enter or leave US without the risk of being denied entry at the immigration check. Further you can have a lot of obligations compared to non immigrants.

The immigration benefits have declined a bit nowadays owing to the poor labor skills and the increasing number of high school drop outs. Especially illegal immigration poses a very serious problem to the economy which is caused by the lacuna in paying taxes.