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Listen, this isn't all that difficult to understand. Migrating to US is much higher effort than migrating practically anywhere else in the world. You don't exp

Listen, this isn't all that difficult to understand. Migrating to US is much higher effort than migrating practically anywhere else in the world. You don't expend that effort if you don't plan on making the best of it. Also US makes it very hard or impossible to migrate if you are not already high earner in your country of origin. Being high earner would normally correlate with being productive, at least when it comes to jobs requiring high level of expertise, ie. practically the only ones that US lets in.

Waterluvian 6y ago
> Migrating to US is much higher effort than migrating practically anywhere else in the world. This is a surprising statement to me. Maybe it's true. But my understanding (which might be wrong) is that it's considerably more difficult to receive legal status in most other OECD nations.
- jounker 6y ago
  As American living abroad, I assure you that the US has an almost absurdly burdensome immigration system.
  - refurb 6y ago
    As someone whoo immigrated to the US, most of the difficulty is due to demand - i.e. H1B lottery, visa country caps, etc. Otherwise it's not that different than other countries.
    - lmilcin 6y ago
      I studied mathematics. It wasn't hard to get there at all. The only problem was there were seventeen applicants for every single one that got in, otherwise it wasn't more difficult than if I wanted to get admitted to geology.
- freshbob 6y ago
  What's you definition of "legal status"? It's not like this article talks about people coming to the US illegally. Do you mean settled status? Regardless, that is easier as well (see for instance the guy posting about the Blue Card a few comments up).
jmartrican 6y ago
I know a lot of poor immigrants in my home town in NJ (my family for example when we got here). I know there are countries in Europe/Asia that are much harder than the US to get into. IMHO the US is more about making money than it is about where you come from or your ethnicity or your nationality. We just want to get paid. I know in the news you see a lot of parts of the US that makes it seem like they do not want immigrants, but I think the truth is that the US welcomes immigrants more than other countries.

Waterluvian 6y ago

> Migrating to US is much higher effort than migrating practically anywhere else in the world. This is a surprising statement to me. Maybe it's true. But my understanding (which might be wrong) is that it's considerably more difficult to receive legal status in most other OECD nations.

jounker 6y ago
As American living abroad, I assure you that the US has an almost absurdly burdensome immigration system.
- refurb 6y ago
  As someone whoo immigrated to the US, most of the difficulty is due to demand - i.e. H1B lottery, visa country caps, etc. Otherwise it's not that different than other countries.
  - lmilcin 6y ago
    I studied mathematics. It wasn't hard to get there at all. The only problem was there were seventeen applicants for every single one that got in, otherwise it wasn't more difficult than if I wanted to get admitted to geology.
freshbob 6y ago
What's you definition of "legal status"? It's not like this article talks about people coming to the US illegally. Do you mean settled status? Regardless, that is easier as well (see for instance the guy posting about the Blue Card a few comments up).

jmartrican 6y ago

I know a lot of poor immigrants in my home town in NJ (my family for example when we got here). I know there are countries in Europe/Asia that are much harder than the US to get into. IMHO the US is more about making money than it is about where you come from or your ethnicity or your nationality. We just want to get paid. I know in the news you see a lot of parts of the US that makes it seem like they do not want immigrants, but I think the truth is that the US welcomes immigrants more than other countries.