Over the past twenty years many questions have been raised concerning the internal manpower provisions of the Immigration Act of 1965. In general, these questions have focused on the effectiveness, and equity, of both the labor certification and occupational preference provisions of the Law (and its amendments). Two frequent observations based upon current immigration experience are that the Law tends to: (1) single out professional and technical personnel for special treatment, and (2) highly concentrate immigrants in states such as California and New York on the bases of family reunification and employment opportunity.' That the Immigration Act of 1965 helped foster the brain drain from both developing and developed countries to the United States is now well accepted.2 However, little is known about the locational behavior of these highly educated immigrants within this country, and how such behavior is governed by regional labor market conditions. The purpose of this paper is to provide such information by analyzing labor market and other determinants of the initial settlement pattern, as well as subsequent interstate remigration, of college educated immigrants. In addition, given that the remigration component of the study considers solely post-immigration locational behavior (independent of the 1965 Law preference provisions), policy conclusions are also relevant to highly-trained manpower expected to reenter the United States under legislation now pending before the 99th Congress (1985 version of the Simpson-Mazzoli Bill). The initial settlement pattern of college educated immigrants in 1975 is examined below by origin region. In addition, the degree to which this pattern is dispersed between