Annually about 5,500 Moldovan students leave for the USA by Work&Travel program. “It is a successful program, because it allows the young people get new experience and new relations. It is structured in such a way that the participants have the opportunity to work and entertain themselves, as well,” US ambassador to Chisinau Asif Chaudhry stated on Thursday, November 13, at a meeting at his residence with students who took part in the program and university rectors. Nicolae Stavila, a 3rd year student in general medicine, has told Info-Prim Neo that he is satisfied with the experience in the USA and the way he spent his free time. In the US, he worked as a rescue man at a swimming pool of the entertainment park Disneyland. Ludmila Rebeja, a Technical University student, says she also had pleasant and interesting experience in the USA, where she worked as a consultant seller of cosmetics. She is glad she visited New York and Manhattan and she hopes to visit America again. The Work&Travel Program offers unique work experience, and a cultural program, says Claudia Reichstein, the director of international relations Work&Travel in Germany. More rectors present at the meeting expressed their concern about the lack of cooperation between the Universities, the embassy and the firms that help students go to the USA within Work&Travel program. Gheorghe Cimpoies, the Agrarian University’s rector, said he does not know how many students have gone. “We should know how many students leave for the US and how many must come back, because we expel them, but it is not correct. We should conclude contracts with students who leave, in order to be sure they will come back. This year, all the students expelled because of coming late to classes have been restored. We took into account that this year is the Youth Year,” Gheorghe Cimpoies has stated. The Work and Travel program was launched in Moldova in 2002 with 50 participants. In 2006, the number grew up to 1 400 persons. In 2007, the US Embassy to Chisinau received over 5,300 visa applications within the program, as 5,041 were endorsed.