Reverse US immigration will cause 'brain drain' for economy
September 25 2009 by Mark Johnstone
Vivek Wadwha on US immigration
More skilled immigrants who move to the US are leaving the country, raising concerns that the US may lose its competitive edge in the global economy, says a report in USA Today.
Reasons for this upturn in reverse US immigration include the fact that people are leaving work in the US to move to countries experiencing rapid economic growth.
Leading US immigration expert, Vivek Wadwha of Duke University in North Carolina, predicts that over the next five years, 200,000 people who have emigrated to the US will return to China and India.
“What was a trickle has become a flood,” says Wadwha. “For the first time in American history, we are experiencing the brain drain that other countries experienced.”
Other factors that are causing this phenomenon include better career opportunities outside the US, improved quality of life and family ties back home and delays in the application for a US visa.
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