wat0n wrote:Why has emigration from Argentina greatly increased these last few years?
Inflation and having to pay the IMF interest payments. They could not stop the results of that reality. It is not some mystery. I already posted how the IMF neoliberal policies endorsed by them means the shock doctrine.
Milei is going for the shock doctrine. He even uses their language.
Here is what that neoliberal model is about.
The Austerity shit model only makes for more instability, and immigrants fleeing. The ones running the show are the US, the UK, Germany, wealthy nations. They of course want to make money off of their loans. If the nations can not pay back the loans with the required interest? They can take over ports, resources, and basically BUYOUT that nation. Without toppling the government and installing puppet regimes. It is the way of controlling nations without committing troops to occupy that place. It is really just creating the environments for war. Because if people cant feed their kids or educate their kids or have a bed to sleep in and a way of getting medicine and basics? They will be immigrating. The number one reason for immigration is economic. No doubt on that one.
It should lead to a mass exodus to Mexico from Argentina. And a mass exodus to the USA.
Unfortunately the USA immigration system is broken and unless you speak English well, have some STEM skills and so on and get a favorable VISA status to the USA it won't matter if you are from Argentina and need to make $40 bucks an hour for a middle class life. The immigration people in the USA need to give those jobs to US citizens first.
The reality is that four nations are the ones with the largest amount of new US citizen applications, and Argentina is not on the top four slots.
It is Mexico, China, India and Cuba. Those four. Argentina is not on that list mainly because of its distance from the USA and also because it does not have a long immigration chain there. The other nations do. Most new American citizens apply for for their family members. Next employees for certain industries.
About 9 million immigrants qualify for becoming US citizens each year. Only one million apply for that. Many just want to work in the USA and go back and forth to their native countries Wat0n. It is interesting to understand the motivations for immigrating.
The US has a long and expensive immigration process.
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KEY FINDINGS FROM THIS REPORT INCLUDE:
The coronavirus pandemic exacerbated problems in the system and worsened already-worrisome national trends.
On March 18, 2020 — due to COVID-19 — USCIS stopped conducting in-person interviews and oath ceremonies for immigrants seeking to become naturalized citizens. These immigrants had already made it through most of the naturalization process after many months—sometimes years—of waiting when the naturalization process was halted. Nationwide, there were well over 100,000 naturalization applicants already stuck in limbo, with thousands more piling up by the month.
The volume of applications received each year does vary, but only slightly. However, ahead of elections, the number typically does increase more significantly. From July through September 2020, citizenship data shows that nearly 35% more people applied for U.S. citizenship than during the same period in advance of the 2016 election. Boundless estimates that nearly 300,000 would-be citizens should have been eligible to vote in the 2020 elections— including many Senate runoffs— but couldn’t due to the suspension of naturalization services.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic upended the immigration system, the demand for U.S. citizenship in recent years has remained higher than that in 2016–2017. But just as demand soars, so do the processing times, deepening the naturalization crisis around the country.
By the end of August 2022, the processing time for a citizenship application had surged to almost 18 months — more than double the processing time between 2012 and 2016. (Note that the processing time for a citizenship application is from receipt all the way until the final oath ceremony, not just the approval of the application.)
Average citizenship processing times
These processing times kept rising because the government could not keep pace with the volume of incoming applications, which only got worse as the COVID-19 pandemic led to reduced staff, hours, and capacity. After a 2-year spike in 2016–2017, the volume of citizenship applications fell slightly in 2018 and 2019, only to once again surge to historic levels from 2020 to present.
In 2022, almost 14% of all citizenship applications received resulted in a denial. This rate of denial was about the same a decade ago – 13% in 2009 – and fell briefly in the last few years, but following the pandemic, it rose sharply again. Becoming a U.S. citizen is much harder in some places than others.
Even before the delay from COVID-19, immigrants seeking naturalization faced an uneven, challenging landscape. USCIS field offices around the United States handle naturalization applications differently, with dramatically different processing times, most of which have increased over the last few years.