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Yet their failure to return in large numbers is just as damaging to their countries as any failure to return among those students we directly sponsor. We know that the brain drain is massive. And we know that many do not return. yet the figures we have vary so widely it is almost ludicrous. For example. we can derive from Immigration and Naturalization Service figures an estimate that about 30 percent of Asian students who come here on socalled "Fvisas." as most students do. adjust their status to permanent U.S. resident. By contrast. Dr. James A. Perkins. the distinguished president of Cornell University. cites an estimtae that 90 percent of Asian students who come here do not go back to their countries.