'highly skilled immigrants' is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to refer to immigrants who possess valuable skills that they can use to contribute to a new country. For example: "The country is hoping to attract highly skilled immigrants to help the economy and drive innovation."
An 844-page bill introduced in the Senate in mid-April by a bipartisan group of eight lawmakers includes measures to make legal immigration easier for highly skilled immigrants, migrant farmworkers and those living here illegally.
IMMIGRATION Here, many major U.S. businesses are looking for a solution; they especially would like to increase the pool of highly skilled immigrants and are willing to back comprehensive immigration reform as a way to do so.
What's more, studies estimate that hundreds of thousands of highly skilled immigrants already working here find themselves stuck in immigration limbo for years, waiting for visa and green-card applications to be approved.
Addressing the supply side means expanding pathways for legal immigration to attract and retain low skilled and highly skilled immigrants to fill jobs unfilled by authorized residents.
The problem is that American immigration policy in recent years has effectively worked to discourage highly skilled immigrants from staying here, as Vivek Wadhwa documents in his new book, "The Immigrant Exodus".
Federal immigration authorities received about 163,000 petitions for temporary work visas for highly skilled immigrants for the year starting Oct. 1, officials said Thursday, nearly twice as many as the number of visas available.
He's called for restrictions on highly skilled immigrants.
But in the case of highly skilled immigrants these policies are a recipe for stagnation.
But as the head of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation told the NYT, immigration reform for highly-skilled immigrants has "close to zero" of passing without comprehensive reform.
President Barack Obama during his State of the Union address called for reforms to the nation's immigration system that would help highly-skilled immigrants remain in the country.
Highly-skilled immigrants, he claims, are vital to the country's future.
