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• H-1B Visa data
• What Exists and What We Can Learn
• from It Regarding Scientists and Engineers
• November 7, 2007
• B. Lindsay Lowell
• Institute for the Study of International
  Migration
• Georgetown University
• lowellbl_at_georgetown.edu
• Presentation at NBER at a workshop on the
  long-term career patterns of foreign-born
  scientists and engineers who either trained in
  the U.S. , Boston

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H-1BData Sources

• Dept of Labor Labor Condition Apps
• Employer application for position, occupation and
  wage, no educational info, multiple applications
• Dept Homeland Security Petitions
• Employer petition for worker, occupation,
  education, wages, etc., no place of educ.
• Dept of State Visa Issuances
• Issuance of visa abroad, no worker information

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Petitions data no POE
USCIS does not maintain separate data regarding
whether the degree was earned in the United
States or abroad. (Data on beneficiaries with
U.S. advanced degrees has been available since
May 2005.) Source DHS Characteristics Report,
Fiscal Year 2005. Of the estimated 53,300 aliens
already in the United States in a nonimmigrant
status, approximately 58 were here as F-1
academic students. Note that aliens outside of
the United States may have been in the U.S. as a
nonimmigrant at some earlier date. Source INS
Characteristics Report (Sample), Fiscal Year 1999.
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