Seattle ranks high in H-1Bs but gets little training money from visa fees
Source: Seattle Times
Seattle is among the top cities where companies bring in skilled foreign workers under the H-1B visa program, thanks largely to technology powerhouses such as Microsoft and Amazon.com.
But the area doesn't receive anywhere near its share of the money generated by H-1B visa fees, which are supposed to be used to train the local workforce to perform similar jobs, according to a new study.
Seattle ranked ninth in H-1B visa requests per 1,000 workers over the past two years, but it ranked 64th per capita in grant dollars received since 2001 from the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration, according to the Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington, D.C.
... In the United States last year, more than half of the 1,600 computer-science doctoral students were foreigners, Kamela said, leaving 700 U.S.-born doctorates.
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