This year's H1B visa (temporary work visas issued to highly skilled foreign workers) quota has been used up in five days。This phenomenon highlights the US visa regime absurdity. A total of 155 million US labor force, and the annual H1B visas issued only 65,000 copies, and another 20,000 copies distributed to foreign graduates of master's degree or above. If the H1B visa and green card quotas (which can eventually apply for citizenship by virtue of work visas) quota combined, the United States each year there are only accepted 225,000 skilled foreigners, less than 0.1% of its total workforce, it makes the US difference in rich countries, and also detrimental to the US economy.
The current US immigration system has been on the US ability to innovate tangible damage caused, although this short period of time can not see the damage. Compared with the United States graduates, the possibility to produce graduates from foreign patent is much greater. Since 2000, the United States produced in the global patent proportion dropped to 27 percent from 42 percent.
