This fee will be deposited in INS Examinations Fee Account. This provision is not effective until final regulations are issued. Furthermore, AILA could not support any expedite proposal without protections to ensure that the processing of other filing types will not be further neglected in order to meet the expedite goals. Furthermore, this proposal is particularly egregious in that it would restrict the availability of expedited processing to only the largest of large employers. We are concerned that ever increasing fees would also mean a burden to smaller employers that use the program.
Employers already spend billions of dollars each year to educate and train U.S. workers.
Therefore, AILA does not believe that employers that hire foreign nationals should be penalized with an additional tax for their sponsorship. The fee revenues that now go to the Department of Labor for operation of the Job Training Partnership Act shall instead go toward scholarships. 403 - Scholarships Scholarships shall be awarded by the National Science Foundation on the basis of merit directly to students who will be graduate students or undergraduate students in their junior or senior years pursuing bachelor's or graduate degrees with majors in computer science, computer programming, information sciences, systems analysis, computer engineering, electrical engineering, electronics engineering, or electronic commerce. Scholarships are currently awarded to low-income students studying mathematics, engineering or computer science. AILA does not have specific positions on the best means to educate and train U.S. workers.