US Immigration Backlog Causes Reverse Brain Drain
Posted: September 23rd, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Americas | 2 Comments »A recent study from the Kauffman Foundation points to the slow immigration processing in the US as the cause for many of the world's best and brightest to give up on America and return abroad.
The research was conducted at Duke, NYU and Harvard, and this study is the third in a series of studies dealing with the contributions of immigrants to the American economy. This study looks at the contribution made by foreign nationals in the US to patent applications filed in the US and an increasing trend for these professionals to relocate abroad.
See Intellectual Property, the Immigration Backlog, and a Reverse Brain-Drain, Kauffman Foundation, August 22, 2007, for more information.
I think the real question is why the us teaches so many studentds from overseas instead of thier own. Yes some stay here while most go back home. The us likes to get grades ranked higher by taking brighest people from around the world and give them low cost college instead of own people.
Given that the US. comparative advantage in the global economy is in creating knowledge and applying it to business, it behooves the country to consider how we might adjust policies to reduce the immigration backlog, encourage innovative foreign minds to remain in the country, and entice new innovators to come.