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The first major category of the survey pertains to immigrant scien- 

 tists and engineers admitted to the United States. In the fiscal year 

 1970, 13,300 entered the United States, a record for the past 20 years. 

 This figure represented an increase by one;third more than in 1969 and 

 two and one-half times the number in 1965. Preliminary data avail- 

 able for fiscal year 1971 show 13,100 immigrant scientists and engi- 

 neers. The figure for physicians also increased, but less dramatically, 

 from 2,000 in 1965 to nearly 3,000 yearly in the next 5 years. Increases 

 over the 1965 levels occurred as a result of amendments to the immi- 

 gration law made effective in October 1965. 



The contributions of inmiigrant natural scientists and engineers 

 are seen in the fact that they equal 20 percent of the net addition to 

 science and engineering employment since 1965, up from less than 

 10 percent in the period 1950-64. 



The data also snow a decided shift towards the LDCs of Asia. More 

 than half of the immigrant scientists and engineers in 1970, an un- 

 precedented 7,500, had last resided in Asia. In 1965, the last year under 

 the old immigration law, only 10 percent of a much smaller number 

 were from Asia. The increment of 2,900 Indian scientists and engi- 

 neers for 1970 was substantial. Indians were the largest number ad- 

 mitted from any country over the last 20 years, as were the nearly 800 

 physicians from the Philippines in both 1969 and 1970. The stress on 

 Asia is also seen in the statistics indicating that, among the 3,800 im- 

 migrant scientists and engineers in 1970 who had been born in one 

 country and last resided elsewhere before entering the United States, 

 there were 740 born in mainland China, 360 in Pakistan, and 620 in 

 India.^*^ 



>»lbld., p. 4. 



