Immigration is the movement through which individual permanently move from their place of residence to another country." In simple words immigration is the medium through which people move from one country to another for high standard of living , earning money, to gain knowledge or education . Settling people in another country or region either permanently or temporarily, has many benefits for host country as well as home country. From many parts of the world more and more people migrants to USA ,Canada, UK, Australia, Newzealand and European countries. Immigration helps in country by several ways, for example overseas students invest a lot of money which is very much helpful to the countries welfare. Immigration also contribute its role in the economic growth, cultural activities, increase the standard of living and settles good relationship between two countries. This essay will discuss the immigration’s contribution to the country’s welfare.
To begin with, there are different types of immigration, classed under different categories of visa. The first one is employment visa or working visas, is most commonly authorized to highly skilled workers. Candidates which have advanced knowledge and are highly educated , get visa under this category. Some of the public and private business companies in different parts of world sponsored these types of visas. Foreign students are actively encouraged by the government of different countries for study. "There are a number of categories of student visa, most of which require a confirmed offer from an educational institution. Visas are often granted on the basis of family background" . In family background they see whether a student’s family has enough funds to study in foreign country. These funds includes living cost, transport cost, tuition fee of the course, travel charges and health insurance. Now-a-days all the countries has strict rules for the student visas. All the students have to pass the English language requirements, for example they have to do IELTS(International English language testing system) and TOEFL( Test of English as foreign language). There are also number of different types of family visas, which includes Parent visas, Spouse visas and tourist visa. These visa are help to permanent setting in foreign country. Family and student visa applicant requires to live for at least 4 years.
As we all know immigration plays an important role for the people and country." Earning a high income and learning new cultural practices are some of the advantage of immigration. For businesses, immigration allows entry into new markets thus increasing the number of customers for the business’ products. In terms of disadvantages, immigration can lead to an increase in crime rates as well as spread of viruses or diseases such as swine flu, cancer ,AIDS etc." But we can see that the advantages of the immigration are more than the disadvantages. So we are now more discuss about the role of immigration for welfare of the country. Immigration is a good thing because foreigners will do the jobs in different parts of the world. Truthfully, immigration is good because immigrants bring in new ideas, new culture, new food, and so on. When a person is migrate from one country to another it is very helpful for the country in which he/she is migrate or live there. Brain drain also help in welfare of the country. "Brain drain refers to the increasing tendency of the young, energetic, capable and talented youth of a country to migrate to another country in search of their future. However, Immigrants contribute economically by earning and spending money, which benefits local businesses, and by generating tax revenue". Many organizations also state that immigrants provide companies with a pool of workers whose skills are very beneficial for company and the development of nation. America is one of the most powerful and developed country in the world, what is the reason behind this? The reason is immigration, as from last 5 years nearly 8 million people migrant to America. American government give visa to highly skilled students and employers so that they can contribute their role for the development .People from China, India, Japan, Pakistan who are well educated get job in different fields in America. "International tourism also one of the part of immigration and it also help in the economies of the countries for example entry of new companies and tourism field that has made air travel cheaper and accessible to all people from all corners of the world".
Furthermore, Multinational companies have started new brands or branches in different countries due to globalization. When people move from one country to another for some business meetings, they share their products and make dealing .This leads to the exchange of goods and product between countries. Many branded clothes, fruits, vegetables, machinery, automobile spare-parts etc import and export to other countries. So in this way employees of an organization travel to various countries in a big number and give benefit in field of welfare to countries. There is one of the most important point for immigration is spread of movies and satellites channels across the world has inspired the views to visit other countries. Immigrants come with their own culture and may influence host cultures by their own cultures. Immigrants spread their culture to foreign countries and the people of these countries excited to learn some different culture. For example a person who is belong to India and he is a Punjabi. As we all know Punjabi culture are very popular in all most all the countries of the world. Suppose he is now lives in Australia and he spread their culture , like to tell the people about their 10 Gurus , their history, How strong they were and what are the problems to face. He also spread dressing of their culture like salwar suits for girls and kurta pajamas and turban for boys. He also gives the knowledge of their native language that is Punjabi. As we see today most of the foreign countries and foreign people also adopts Punjabi culture. Many foreigners like the dresses of the Punjabi’s. Now in foreign countries in every city there are many Gurudwaras (religious temples) and people like to visit Gurudwaras and this helps to spread culture and promote religion. In some countries Punjabi language is declared as second language of the country. The state "Surry" in Canada declared Punjabi language as the second official language. This all is happen by immigration or we can say that moving of people from one country to another country. The person who is from India also spread their festivals. Festivals can be used to attract international visitors and investors, government can promote special feature of celebration along with art that is associated with the festivals in various countries. These promotions attract people of other countries to visit our nation to be a part of the celebration. This helps to increase the economic growth of nation.
However, Immigration also helps us gathering information about new technology in the world. People which are migrate from another country gain some knowledge of new technology which helpful for other countries those who have no such technology. This helps to create good things or some other products by new techniques . Immigration also helps in innovation of new ideas and thoughts. It means to create new ideas for developing new technology, for trading etc. A good decision making person helps in the companies to increase the income by his good decision. He should be good person and ability to make good or innovative ideas to company for the welfare of that company. Multinational companies like IT collects finance from foreign countries due to their creative mind and innovative ideas. From their innovative mind he/she create or generate new products in any field which meets the need of the people. Than this new product transportation any part of the country and ear money. To add on, many youngster who are coming to foreign countries for study also contribute in the welfare. The quality of life is improved with immigration. This benefit is usually experienced by oversea students and probably helps them to fulfill their goals and a better life in future. Canada, Australia, UK and Newzealand attracts more overseas students because these countries has the combination of well profiled universities which are internationally recognized. So, if any student who qualified from these counties’ universities can get a job in their home country as well as in foreign countries.
In a nutshell, it can be said that immigration builds good relationships between nations. It helps in financial as well as economic growth of the nation. Immigration is helpful for us like to get knowledge about the culture, language, food and creates innovative ideas. Immigration should follow strict rules and laws while processing any case so that in future terrorist activities and drug dealers will not achieve their goals.