Listen!The world's second richest man is talking.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/default.mspx
If US,with the huge pool of talents,still need foreign
talents,
how SG is the exception?
read the full
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/exec/billg/speeches/2008/congress.mspx
listen:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88154016
news:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/gates-warns-us-not-to-drive-out-foreign-talent-439332.html
By Stephen Foley in New York
Thursday, 8 March 2007
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Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the world's richest
man, told lawmakers in the US yesterday to allow more skilled
foreigners to stay in the country, warning that if they did not,
"America's economic future is in
peril".
Testifying to Congress, Mr Gates said there was a critical
shortage of science graduates which could hurt the competitiveness
of pioneering technology companies.
It "makes no sense" that foreign students who apply for US
student visas must prove they intend to leave once they receive
their degree. "If we are going to invest in educating foreign
students ... why drive them away just when this investment starts
to pay off for the American economy?" he said. "I see the negative
effects of these policies every day at Microsoft."
Mr Gates is the most high profile of a string of technology
company executives who have argued for a relaxation of America's
immigration laws.
The Microsoft chief, whose charitable foundationprovides hi-tech
equipment to schools, among other causes, also criticised the US
schools system, describing students as "digital natives caught up
in an industrial-age learning model".
The Senate Health, Education, Labour and Pensions Committee,
chaired by veteran Democratic senator Edward Kennedy, has been
holding hearings under the title "strengthening American
competitiveness for the 21st century".
Mr Gates said the government's annual allotment of H1B visas,
for foreign professionals employed by US companies and
universities, ran out in the first four months of the 2006-07 year.
He predicted the 2007-08 supply will run out even sooner, meaning
that Microsoft for the first time will not get H1B visas for any
graduating students this year.
--http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/gates-warns-us-not-to-drive-out-foreign-talent-439332.html