How Expensive Is It to Be an Immigrant?

The minimum income for an H1B visa is 60k USD a year....lol, and the visa cost is paid by the employer and the employer must also pay for your health insurance, these LEGAL immigrants have no problems with these fees

Omg, my dream is to live in the USA, it's terrible to live here in Brazil, we have bad wages, bad education, bad free healthcare system (just because it is free it doesn't mean it will gonna work, alot of people wait months to have surgery and some d*e waiting... It's sad but it's our reality) we also have bad security, also most of us live very far from the Amazon (it's kinda the distance to go to another country), ah, and I can't forget that food here is also expensive, we are a country that produce meat, but guess, meat for us are a little expensive. Of course it is good to stay here as a tourist, but living in here as a citizen is not good, unless you have much money or much money. We do not leave Brazil because our currency is devalued and it makes hard to leave and go to another country bcs other currencies are expensive...

Someday I hope I can live in the US as a citizen...

I’m proud being a naturalized US citizen. This is a land of freedom I’ve ever wished to stay here and contribute my patriotism

As a first generation immigrant, I want to thank you for this video! I think the worst obstacle we face isn’t the immigration fees but rather discrimination and racism. Many immigrants face road blocks that are designed to keep them away from accumulating Wealth. Happy to live in America even as a second class citizen!

as a swede if i wanted to move to the USA, could i get a job when i get there or how does it work? do i have to get a job before?

Immigrants make America great. The hardest working, most noble and genuine people I’ve met have been immigrants. ❤

Unfortunately, we can't expect the citizens to support the masses of the world that want to come here.

What happend to you guys? Wokeism?

Immigration is FREE. I mean the "undocumented" one. It's free because citizens will pay.

Thank you for this information! America is the best country

You should make your next video about the expenses incurred on the government to allow these people to live here

In Japan you pay an $80 stamp for PR after acceptance and you are good to go. Naturalization costs $0.

I came here in 1988, I worked very hard and it was very tough initially to make ends meet. I didn't have credit but didn't give up until I found a credit card company that would give me a credit line and started building credit. I always say where there is a will there is a way. I didn't go to any predatory lenders, had a work visa, and a three month old baby, worked over 60 hours a week to help support a young family. I am grateful for the opportunity to come here, I am one of the one in four people that started a business.

Oh boo hoo

Similar to your "it's expensive to be poor" video, this is one of the worst takes this channel has ever had. It is ridiculous to claim that a new immigrant's major problem is the fees they have to pay to USCIS. If you can't pay those fees - your problem is that you don't have a job. If you can get a job - go get it and these amounts won't be a problem, especially seeing how they enable you to continue working in the US legally. If you can't get a job - then I'm not sure why you immigrated in the first place. Regardless - all these fees are completely optional; many of them are simply waved if you claim you can't pay them, and others you only pay if you do want to immigrate, which is not a requirement by any stretch of imagination unless you're an asylum seeker (in which case they can't send you home just because you can't pay, so it's also optional).

It is hard as fuck to get accepted to the US , I love the United States so much it’s incredible to me thinking that I might be there if I tried harder and harder so you’re now stuck in a loop of trying so hard to the point of thinking it’s impossible, I even got jealous of people getting in the US illegally and watching them breaks me and what I do try harder? It’s overwhelming

My life

Now you know why people do it what's called illegally the border is ALL SCREW UP now one can wait 25-30 years to migrant its really not about migration or citizenship its about LEGALLY able to work and would love to return say like 6 month in and six out

OMG they've become total hippies

Yeah better to stay in your own country; US has become shithole; don't wanna get stuck here and then not have money to leave. 1000 bux just for vaccine refusal wtf.

A great video shedding light on costs a lot of families face. These costs really put a burden on my parents and our family growing up.
Seeing my dad stressed about money growing up made me stressed about it from a young age and gave me a scarcity mindset. It’s taken years to shake it off and I’m still working on it over ten years later.

Because of my accent, I am always a target for scammers, like car mechanics or bankers. When I was buying a car, they wanted to charge me 21% interest rate even though my credit score was 759 and had no other loans. When asked why, they've said because I am an immigrant.

wealth shouldn't be the biggest priority it should be to live free from religious or political persecution

To support families abroad - is not the main reason for immigration.
Because the people could support families from their own countries, if it was possible. It is not. So the main reason is just economic reason, and the fact that other countries are poorer than the US. But immigrants bring more than they take. You said it your self. They work twice as hard just to keep up.

Excellent video

Migrant pay taxes and if a person is a so-called illegal alien, they get tens of billions in taxes yearly stolen, get it from the slush fund, there made up S.S. number don't match there names to work, they cant file a tax return, so the fed and state tax get stolen, they just act stupid as if it don't exist, migrant also stimulate the economy, lots of jobs, no worker, they very thing (they think) there are avoiding are stopping is what there actually causing, migrants legal are not, are less likely to cause crime then native born Americans

Out of the almost one million of "immigrants" how may come here legally?

Even after following the law and paying the fees there is no guarantee that you will immigrate

Bruh imagine wanting to life in that shithole

As someone that has spent thousands on greencard related fees I 100% agree with this video.

USCIS is founded by it's fees, and not tax dollars. Other government agencies don't have such constraints for the fees for other services are minimal

Free if you're an illegal.

work in developed nation, made pretty money, go back to home country, retire early in glory


just don't get the citizenship,,
sometime you can't renounce it and sometime you can't avoid the taxes even when you're in home country

Not understand why people still think that US is best country to move....... maybe for poor Mexicans, Guatemala is, but most of Europeans will never want to move to US.
But what about US family moving to Portugal, Spain, Greece ?

After becoming US citizens my goal now is to make money to go back to my homeland

The hardest part of being an immigrant is that even if you're doing well, you'll always consider to go back to your country because adapting its hard (right now things are a bit crazy everywhere).
There is not a best way to immigrate and it takes a lot of sacrifice to be successful as a foreigner. One thing I definetly think that helps a lot is being educated.
Talking from my experience, it is not easy and takes a lot of work to finally land on an secure job if you have a degree from an unknown university and the degree has a different name, but they will trust you and if you demonstrate your abilities, they will reward you. You can also make it without a degree but it would be harder. Try to study, apply to a public university and take a few courses a semester so you can work and study. It doesn't matter if it takes you more time.

A million folks making highly questionable moves each year. That is depressing. They are ill-informed or outright duped. The one thing that helps many of them is the difference in economies, how far the dollars they send to loved ones abroad will go. The US is vastly different from what it was when I was a kid in the 70s. They will not like what they find. I immigrated back to my ancestral homelands in Central Europe in my 50s, and my life is far better here. I will never go back to the US. Fare well, you predatory bigoted oligarchy! I hope, for the sake of those living there, including family and friends, that the US can finally become a good country. It was decent if you were white in the 70s, and we were making real racial progress. That is long gone.

I'm so happy you covered this topic! Immigrating to the US was an expensive experience for me too. A lot of the time people think that becoming a permanent resident or a US Citizen is just paperwork and a small fee, but it is a long and expensive process.

I'm a 25 yo Peruvian who is desperately to go the US, there is no future in this country and I'm tired of all the poverty that covered my family for like 4 generations. Is a harsh system that doesn't support social mobility, despite all the problems I have a lot of acquaintances who travelled to there and now have a better future.

The US is definitely the land of the wealthy. My husband and I are "fleeing" to a cheaper country, whilst still working remote US jobs & being paid in dollars. 😅

We're both children of 1st gen immigrants. My mom fled here after the Vietnam War. She was orphaned as an infant. Her dad died fighting for the US, & her mother died of dysentery during the height of the war.

Her extended family almost ended her life w an opium OD bc babies caused you to be more at risk of being found. Many babies were accidentally given too much opium to keep them quiet while escaping the Vietnamese.

However, her aunt refused to let her die so the Aunt took her & raised her, moving with her to the US, & raising her until she was 15, until ultimately her older 25 yo uncle (total stranger) took custody of her, as per our culture.

At 17 she was sold off for $1k to marry my dad, whom she'd only been dating for 2 weeks. She got herself into college & was the only one of her uncle's 7 other kids that got a degree.

While in school she had 3 kids. She was 25 when she had me, her oldest. I remember going to her graduation at age 3. It took her 10 years to finish her degree.

My mom became a single parent when I was 13 bc my dad got a brain tumor. The surgery was botched so he lived in a nursery home until I was 23 when he died. My mom is 50 now & has never remarried.

My mother in law came to the US at age 16 from Mexico w her family. Thankfully her story was far less dramatic 😅

I feel like the only kind of immigrant who can understand this video is already at intermediate level or above because at this level, a person will be able to hold conversations and have a proficient level of understanding English sentences and grammar.
People who have just immigrated to the US will probably find this useless (yeah, like my parents when they first moved here) because they can't understand a word of English. They may read/write a bit, but speaking-wise, they are extremely poor.

I’m one of these immigrants!.!.

Gonna be tough.

I’m working on getting my wife to immigrant from Thailand, and between having to pay for marriage costs, the wedding, immigration costs, and paying for other support to get her financially stable to come over here, we’ve spent about $30,000 already. And, that’s just us waiting for two years to get her marriage visa finally approved.

Brunnette Gosling

He should cut his hair and grow the mustache again. He looked better with that look.

Wow, seeing this video makes me give myself some credit.
I came here 7 years ago, I became a U.S. citizen the same day I became a home owner after 6 years in America. Two event in one single day. I worked my as* hard, I still do and I always will. I don’t know if I should call it “being lucky” or “being disciplined”.
Maybe since Immigrants know what is like to live in a country with no many opportunities, once we made it in the US, we already have a master in how to play the life game.

I always found surprising that in the US, being a capitalist country, people really shy away of discussing money, earnings and financial challenges. It is like a taboo subject. People seem more eager to talk about their genitals than about finances and wages. Immigrants really have it hard since most folks will feel like you are nosy when all you want is to learn and understand the system. But no one cares, only other immigrants...

My girlfiend's parents don't wanna come here because it's absurd. They are doctors in Venezuela (and before anyone says some racist shit, Venezuela has some of the best doctors in the world), and they just don't wanna go through the paperwork and time. They also have Spanish citizenship and don't wanna go there for the same reason. It's just a lot of extra steps to get what you already have in your home country. Personally her and I wanna fuck off to Spain anyway, so I'm saving in advance. The US is kind of way overrated. Especially overrated by Americans specifically.