| Silicon Valley, an area and name synonymous with | | | | system meaning some of the smartest minds in the |
| innovation, dynamic and entrepreneurs at their finest. | | | | globe have been forced to wait 10-15 years in the |
| An area situated just outside of San Francisco and | | | | same role just so their Green Card application and |
| surrounding the prestigious Stanford University whose | | | | thus permanent residency status can be processed |
| alumni is a who's who of the elite from the founders of | | | | successfully. |
| Hewlett Packard of yesteryear to Sun Microsystems | | | | 1 in 4 tech companies in the US are started by |
| a decade ago to Google and Yahoo today and | | | | Immigrants including beheamoths like Google, Yahoo |
| virtually everything in between. | | | | and eBay so it doesn't take Einstein (himself an |
| What is Going Wrong? | | | | immigrant to the US) to see the detrimental effect this |
| Well it has a lot to do with the US Higher Education | | | | has to the US worker and economy as a whole. |
| Institutions and system being the finest in the world. | | | | U.S. grad school admissions for international students |
| Universities like Harvard and of course Stanford have | | | | plummeted this year for first time in 5 years. Applicants |
| been the attracting these fine minds from around the | | | | from India and South Korea fell 12% and 9% |
| world on the F1 Visa as students are studying under | | | | respectively and overall was a 3% decline |
| the expert tutelage of the world's most dynamic | | | | A majority of the world's economic growth comes |
| professors. These students have long known if they | | | | from India, China, and Brazil. All of these countries |
| work hard and achieve, they too had access to the | | | | much cheaper costs for higher education from ever |
| American Dream of starting a company and making a | | | | improving academic institutions. If an aspiring |
| fortune via work visas like the H1B visa. | | | | entrepreneur is serious evaluating choices for a great |
| In many ways this is all caused by politics. Immigrants | | | | career and to be a global sucess in the next 20 years, |
| have been unfairly, unjustly and quite innaccurately | | | | the answer is increasingly NOT the US. |
| blamed for US economic ills and US Immigration policy | | | | Make no mistake the US greatest threat to it's own |
| has resulted insituations where by things like an H1B | | | | prosperity. Let's all hope sensible, reasoned and rational |
| Visa Quota general delays in the US Immigration | | | | decisions are made going forward. |