Newest Resources in "Immigration"
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Stay Rates of Foreign Doctorate Recipients from US Universities, 2001
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in Immigration"More than two-thirds (71 percent) of foreign citizens who received science/engineering doctorates from U.S. universities in 1999 were in the United States in 2001."
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More H1-B visas on the way?
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in ImmigrationCNET News.com, November 3, 2005. "A provision in a budget measure approved by a late 52 to 47 vote in the U.S. Senate on Thursday would bump up the number of guest-worker visas, known as H-1Bs, from 65,000 to 95,000 for next year."
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Does Globalization of the Scientific/Engineering Workforce Threaten U.S. Economic
Leadership? by Richard Freeman
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in ImmigrationRichard Freeman, NBER Working Paper, 2005. "This paper develops four propositions that show that changes in the global job market for science and engineering (S & E) workers are eroding US dominance in S & E, which diminishes comparative advantage in high tech production and creates problems for American industry and workers"
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Why Americans Don't Study Science: It Doesn't Pay
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in Immigration"There they go again. Claiming they cant find enough skilled Americans, the high-tech industry has browbeaten Congress into allowing them to bring in another 20,000 foreign workers. The little-noticed legislation, inserted into an appropriations bill required for the government to continue normal operations, expands the number of foreign workers eligible for H-1b visas from 65,000 to 85,000 in 2005."
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If We Need Immigrant PhDs, Why Are American PhDs Poor And Unemployed?
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in Immigration"There they go again. Another report on the (allegedly) vital role of immigrants in the U.S. science and engineering workforceimplicitly bemoaning the competence of native-born Americans."
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US biotechs and foreign nationals: the changing dynamics...
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in Immigration...of access to H-1B visas - Nature Biotechnology. Recent changes in the H-1B visa program have left biotech employers shorthanded and confused.
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Student of Concern
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in ImmigrationSF Weekly, May 18, 2005. Proposed Department of Commerce regulations would require that foreign students get export licenses to use dual-purpose technologies in their studies. " Inherent in the new rules is a discriminatory contradiction: Students from India, which has cordial relations with the U.S., will need licenses to study, but students from Saudi Arabia -- home country for most of the participants in the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, and much of the financing and ideology behind Islamist terrorism -- will not. "
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Drop in foreign grad students raises alarm
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in ImmigrationCNN, November 5, 2004. " A new survey indicates the number of foreign graduate students enrolling for the first time at American universities is down 6 percent this year -- the third straight decline after a decade of growth. Educators worry the trend is eroding America's position as the world's leader in higher education. "
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Senate weighs H-1B visa changes
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in ImmigrationSeptember 27, 2004. " There's a push in Congress to change guest visa programs, including a proposal to create a new exemption to the annual cap of 65,000 new H-1B visas. "
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Compete America - The Alliance for a Competitive Workforce
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in ImmigrationA lobbying group that seeks to ease restrictions on H1-B visas for foreign nationals with a Masters or PhD. "In a number of key technical fields, the total number of graduates with advanced degrees has not kept pace with demand. In addition, a rising percentage of the advanced degrees awarded by U.S. universities in areas of study like engineering, mathematics and computer sciences are to foreign nationals. Under current immigration law, however, many of these graduates are not available for hire by U.S. firms without H-1B visas. They are, however, available to overseas competitors."
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H-1B visas going fast
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in ImmigrationThis year's cap of 65,000 H-1B guest-worker visas is already close to being reached, as employers snap up the controversial visas. CNET News.com, January 2004.
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US Visa restrictions - Nature Web Focus (free access)
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in ImmigrationImmigration controls introduced under the 'war on terror' are restricting the flow of foreign researchers into the United States. With other countries moving in on this pool of talent, will the balance of scientific power shift?
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The New Face of the Silicon Age
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in ImmigrationHow India became the capital of the computing revolution. By Daniel H. Pink, Wired, February 2004.
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Bush immigration plan could affect techies
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in Immigration" Details of President Bush's plan to tackle illegal immigration remain fuzzy, but the program could create a new way for technology employers to bring in foreign workers. " CNET News.com, Jan 20, 2004.
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U.S. to sharply cut number of H-1B visas
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in ImmigrationSeptember 22, 2003. " The United States is about to cut the number of employment visas it offers to highly qualified foreign workers from 195,000 to 65,000, immigration experts said Monday. "
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AFL-CIO, CWA propose H-1B reforms
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in ImmigrationA set of reforms to the H1-B program proposed by the AFL-CIO.
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Outward bound: Do developing countries gain or lose when their brightest talents go abroad?
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in ImmigrationThe Economist , September 26, 2002.
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INS Sees Big Drop in High-Tech Visas
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in ImmigrationWashington Post, August 16, 2002. " The fallout from a slowing economy and the technology bust has shown up in yet another place: the decreasing number of so-called high-tech visas awarded to foreign workers. "
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An Evaluation of the Foreign Student Program
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in Immigrationby George J. Borjas. Center for Immigration Studies Backgrounder, June, 2002. " The following evaluation of the foreign student program concludes that: * The INS has little control over the number and type of students being admitted; * The program is littered with corruption and fraud; * American taxpayers subsidize a sizable part of the tuition of foreign students; * The benefits from the program are greatly exaggerated, and the program may well generate a net economic loss for the country; * The program is best viewed as yet another redistribution program, shifting wealth away from native workers and taxpayers and redistributing it to universities and foreigners. " (Requires Adobe Acrobat)
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Rethinking Foreign Students: A question of the national interest.
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in ImmigrationGeorge Borjas, National Review , June 17, 2002. " In 1971, the State Department issued only 65,000 student visas. By 2000, it was issuing 315,000 such visas, and there may now be as many as 1 million foreign students in the U.S.... The program is now so large, so riddled with corruption, and so ineptly run that the INS simply does not know how many foreign students are in the country or where they are enrolled. It has grown explosively without anyone asking the most basic questions: Is such a large-scale foreign-student program in our interests? What does it cost us? And what does it buy us? "
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foreignborn.com
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in Immigration" Our website includes a variety of useful information, from tax issues and medical briefings to overviews of banking and credit in the U.S. We have a popular guide that helps students who desire to 'Study in the U.S.', and we have extensive U.S. visa information that was developed with the assistance of a former official from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. "
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How and Why Government, Universities, and Industry Create Domestic Labor Shortages of Scientists and High-Tech Workers
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in Immigrationby Eric Weinstein, Project on the Economics of Advanced Training, Harvard University / National Bureau for Economic Research. Working Draft.
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Huddled Masses Yearning to Write Java
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in ImmigrationBy Karl Schoenberger, The Industry Standard , May 1, 2000. " With unusual bipartisan consensus, Congress and Clinton are expected this month to approve a bill that would ease limits on the immigration of high-tech workers. But many charge that the U.S. labor shortage is a fiction exploited by business to the detriment of American programmers. "
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High Tech Migrant Labor
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in Immigrationby Alexander Nguyen, The American Prospect , 12/20/99 " Guest workers: They're not just picking vegetables anymore. A new class of 'migrant workers' is taking shape in America's Silicon Valley and other technology centers. These immigrants are not sneaking over U.S. bordersthey arrive by jet from India, the Philippines, China, and Taiwan to take jobs in computer programming, software design, and information services. "
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NPR's Science Friday on the Effects of Espionage on Science
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in ImmigrationJune 4, 1999. " The release of the Cox Report on espionage in America's nuclear laboratories is shaking up Washington, DC... but what effect is the spy case going to have on the scientific community? ... Some observers are concerned that the backlash will also affect other policy matters, such as immigration quotas for foreign scientists -- and that a 'witch-hunt atmosphere' in government labs may sour the scientific aspirations of many innocent scientists who have connections to foreign groups. " (requires a RealAudio player)
