Obama for streamlining H2B visa process

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Washington, September 6:: in the United States, Obama said.

He said it is also important to remember the fact that US really had a "shortage" of PhDs, scientists and engineers. "We really do have a shortage of certain key occupations that, if we want to continue to grow, we've got to develop our kids here," Obama continued, still perhaps having in mind the H1B visa that covers architects, engineers, computer experts, accountants, doctors and college professors.

"We've got to make sure that they are being pushed into the high-skill, high-wage jobs of the future. And that's got to be a group effort. The government can do some things.

Paying teachers more, giving them more support, making sure that they're certified in the subjects that they teach, making college more affordable. Those are all critical areas."

Obama said the US has a "continual" nursing shortage, "not because there aren't people here who could be great nurses. The problem is we pay our nurse educators so little, that there aren't enough slots to train the nurses that we need. And nursing -- working conditions for nurses aren't good enough to attract enough people into the profession.

"So we end up bringing thousands of nurses from other countries, which by the way those countries themselves need nurses. So they really need to be nursing back home. But the problem is we're just not providing the incentives that are going to create more nurses," the Democrat said.