Is the USA a hard country to live in?

George L

Yak Rider is absolutely right in terms of getting here legally. but, in terms of actually living here, after you've made it past the legal requirements, it really depends more on you and what you expect. lots of immigrants come here and leave, most don't, but people still come in behind those who do. lots have unrealistic expectations. life in the US is pretty much what you make of it. the streeets aren't paved with gold, but if you put yourself into it, chances are you'll do fine. The other thing is, for all the anti-immigrant junk you read about the US, which isn't exactly untrue, people are still far more accepting of foreigners than any place I've ever lived, and I've been to quite a few places on top of that. You come here, you can be an American if you want to be, and it's your choice to take citizenship or not. In plenty of places, not only will you never be completely accepted, and neither will your children or your grandchildren for that matter.

However, while it is difficult for people to immigrate here legally, we do take in more people for permanent residency, legally, every year, than the year of the world combined, so that ought to tell you something.

Lynn D

very hard

Nilay

It depends upon how you want to enter in the country?
For student: Student visa, convert it to H1 visa, convert it to greencard, and apply for citizenship.... it aprox takes min 8yrs.

If you have 1st relative: get green card, apply for citizenship... it aprox takes min of 4 yrs.....

As a bottom line its really depend how you want to migrant in USA...

`Andy Capp

Depends on who you are?..if you are an illegal from Mexico living in U.S. is dream come true, no need to work, just sign up for welfare & food stamps, kick back and enjoy....nothing to do but live off the fat of the land, and make more welfare babies...if you get ill from too much laziness?..just go to any hospital emergency room & you get free treatment...not a worry in the world...and it will get even better for illegals, with sh1t stain Obama at the helm of the sinking "U.S. America" he is loading up even more freebies for illegals at expense of the tax payers, as for language barrier?..what barrier?...Obama will soon make Mexican-Spanish mandatory second language in U.S...as I said it`s Mexican illegal`s dream come true-a paradise...

Yak Rider

USA is EASY to immigrate to if you have family that's already here or if you get married to an American citizen.

Following that, if you have a college degree and good job skills you should be able to find a US employer willing to sponsor you for a work visa. The work visa can lead to an immigrant visa.

If you have no college and no job skills and no family members in the USA you'll find it almost impossible.

Diablo

The U.S. is a little hard to become an American citizen, but that's part of the reason American is great. If it were easy to immigrate here, then the U.S. would be no better than any place on earth and the reasons so many people want to come to the U.S. wold be gone instantly.

Yes there are lots of illegals in the U.S., but they are mainly from Mexico. The illegals from Mexico really don't give a flying hoot about the U.S. or it's laws.

Steven_Demzuk@yahoo.com

If you don't have any money you wont make it very fare in the United States. And right now there are a great deal of citizens that are not happy with the illegal immigration issues brought on by the recession.

My advice to anyone thinking about moving to the United States is to wait for better times.

mostlyintheknow

i'm introducing all my answers tonight by mentioning that my caps keys are shot -- the 'typing' police need not mention that i'm writing in all small-case.

we have millions of illegal immigrants in the u.s. we also have millions of legal immigrants and legal permanent residents, my ex-husband being one of the latter. he's from hamburg and 100 percent legal.

our high foreign population includes legal students, illegal workers, and naturalized citizens who ran the gauntlet to become citizens. that can take 5-7 years.

since i do not know a single u.s. citizen who's great grandparents were born in this country, i can say that at least among my circle of friends, we're all in a lineage that leads to another nation. my grandparents were born in ireland. my stepfather was born in ukraine. my stepmother was born in scotland. my step-aunt was born in south africa.

it gets busy here, lol.

the nice thing about the u.s. is yes, it can be 'hard' to live here, but if you follow some pretty basic rules, your life is a lot less harried than, oh, say, dafur.

'hard to live in' is a description that many people would describe very differently. is it hard to make a living here and provide for a family -- yes. but do we worry that some militia group will barge into our homes and rape our girls and burn down our house -- for 99.9 percent of our population, that fear never exists.

we have a crime problem unique to our society -- that might make life hard for some of our citizens and in many ways harder for our illegal immigrants, who don't feel very protected by our law enforcement for obvious reasons.

in general, illegal immigrants here have a difficult life and a hard time earning a living. i would of course prefer that citizenship be easier to attain, but at the tsame time, those who want it should not be felons in their home country, or potential trouble as criminals once they live here legally. i suppose the difficulty in attaining citizen, then, is a price paid by those who have decided that they'd prefer to live here. to be honest, i've traveled to 8 other countries, and not as a tourist, and i do see huge advantages to life in the u.s.

manbe

the goberments of US help to the goberments of mexico but only for to destroy the economy. And now that oll the people go to work to US the goberment do not acept that. but if do not acept workers neither must to admit robber that take the money from the loans that US give to mexico. why discriminate the poor and why to acept the rich only because the power. the people from US is very nice. I think will be good that the goberment don't acept no one mexicano but no even to the presiden of mexico

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