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» posted on Monday, January 18th, 2010 at 9:45 am by admin

 

China narrows technology gap with US

America remains the world’s science and technology leader by minting a record number of patents and having “prolific inventors” in Silicon Valley and university and company labs, but China is gaining ground, the National Science Board said Friday in its congressionally mandated biennial report on science and engineering.
“The report is not just about where we stand, it’s about where we are headed,” National Science Foundation director Arden Bement said at the White House while rolling out the report.

The 2010 report declared 2007 was the year China caught up to the US in the number of researchers and doctoral degrees it handed out in natural sciences and engineering. The US awarded 22,500 doctorates in natural sciences and engineering in 2007, but more than half of them were awarded to foreign nationals from countries like India, China and Russia.

Past experience suggests that most new Ph.D.s will stay in the US. Despite the long wait to get a Green card visa, sluggish US economy and hype about reverse brain drain, the report shows that 60 per cent of temporary visa holders who earned doctorates in science in engineering in 1997 were still working in the US — and had no intention of leaving.

“While the US is the largest R&D performing nation — representing one-third of total world investment — Asia has narrowed the gap due to the sustained annual increases by China,” said Jose-Marie Griffiths, a member of the National Science Board.

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» posted on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 11:21 am by admin

 

Caribbean nationals continue to lead the total of green card visa

Caribbean nationals from two regional nations continue to lead the total of green card visa or legal permanent residents in the United States, according to a latest report from the Department of Homeland Security.

The latest report shows that out of 12.6 million LPRs living in the United States on January 1, 2008 the Dominican Republic and Cuba were among the top ten countries for LPR`s. DHS statistics show there were 420,000 green card visa holders from the Dominican Republic who obtained their LPR status for 2008.

Cubans accounted for 350,000 for the same period. Haitians and Jamaicans, the only other Caribbean nations to make the top 20 list, were put at 230,000 each. Mexico was the leading country of origin of the LPR population in 2008. An estimated 3.4 million or 27 percent of LPRs came from Mexico. The next leading source country was the Philippines with 0.6 million, followed by India and the People`s Republic of China with 0.5 million each.

California was the leading state of residence with an estimated 3.4 million LPRs in 2008 followed by New York at 1.5 million, Texas at 1.3 million and Florida at 1.2 million. Nearly 76 percent of LPRs in the United States in 2008 obtained permanent residence in 1990. Fifty percent gained LPR status between 2000 and 2007, and 14 percent became LPRs before 1980.

[Source: Caribbean World News]

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