Mastodawn

Nos próximos anos, viver nos EUA vai ser visto como coisa de maluquinho. Porquê? Porque mais e mais norte-americanos estão a emigrar para a União Europeia. Porquê? QUALIDADE DE VIDA, ESTABILIDADE E SEGURANÇA

"Call it the Great Continental Drift: professionals are yearning to trade the chaos and costs of life in the US for Europe’s perceived calm and social safety nets.

Countries’ official immigration records indicate surging citizenship applications and naturalizations everywhere from Britain to Austria. Firms that help Americans get second passports and residencies say they’re seeing heightened interest as well.

“More Americans are thinking about moving,” said Morgan Bailey, a former senior official in US Citizenship and Immigration Services and a partner at the law firm Mayer Brown. “The perception is that Europe offers what some Americans feel they may be missing right now: that predictability, that stability, that sense of balance without stepping off the global career track.”
Basil Mohr-Elzeki, managing partner at residence and citizenship advisory firm Henley & Partners, said US nationals represented about 4% of the firm’s global business in 2018. Now it’s above 40%.

Politics play a role as does the appeal of mobility. An American with an Italian passport can live and work anywhere in the EU — get a job in Milan, send their kids to school in Germany or retire in Greece.

These fantasies unravel fast with closing borders and tightening immigration rules, not to mention the obvious pitfalls when moving families, finances and careers. If the grass still looks greener on the other side of the Atlantic, there are reliable paths to entry."

https://www.bloomberg.com/explainers/how-americans-can-move-to-europe-work-gold-visa-ancestry

#USA #Emmigration

HJ-237-S 🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇧Sep 19, 2025

Can I ask all the euro furs which countries are most resistant to fascist takeovers?

As we are queer and disabled We’re starting to consider the possibility of emigrating from the UK given the possibility of a MAGA style reform government.

Luckily I’m a fairly competent software developer so I should be able to get a work visa at least ^^

Currently considering Spain or Australia.

#europe #eu #uk #unitedKindom #australia #emmigration

The Christian Science Monitor Sep 10, 2025

Chinese students and scholars have long made up the largest foreign scientific community in America, a major talent pool. The Trump administration has not made them feel welcome; can Beijing tempt them to return home? #china #students #scholars #emmigration

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2025/0910/China-U.S.-research-science?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into WHAT JUST HAPPENED IN YOUR WORLD @what-just-happened-in-your-world-csmonitor

Facing uncertain future in US, Chinese scholars ponder a return home

The Trump administration's anti-immigrant stance has made Chinese scholars and students feel unwelcome in the U.S. Can Beijing persuade them to return home to work?

The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor Sep 10, 2025

Facing uncertain future in US, Chinese scholars ponder a return home

The Trump administration's anti-immigrant stance has made Chinese scholars and students feel unwelcome in the U.S. Can Beijing persuade them to return home to work?

The Christian Science Monitor

⁂Krafty⁂ #NoKings Apr 26, 2025

Should I #immigrate from #usa to #canada? I don't have much money to leave with. Please boost for reach!

#uspol #immigration #emmigration #askfedi

Yes

64.3%

No

14.3%

Some other country (please comment)

21.4%

Poll ended at May 3, 2025 at 6:25pm.

Golden Retriever GF Nov 6, 2024

Here is my working-poor moving to Germany post. I work with people from Africa, Syria, Afgahnistan and poorer european countries like Serbia and Romania very frequently. These people have a weak passport and are from dramatically poorer countries. I am a cook. I was a cook in the USA and the vast majority of my progress to get to europe was done at minimum wage. The idea it's just for the super wealthy is a myth.

You don't get to call cooks both underpaid and overprivileged in the same sentence. Or Afgahnistan or Syrians or Muslims "privileged". So let's talk some tips for those of you that don't have backgrounds in high paying industries and even if you do, stick around it might help.

1) Start learning German now. I would hazard against duolingo and look for something like Memrise instead. It boosted me to an A1 in two years. Duolingo uses very negative reinforcement strategies and I'd argue it's not that good.
2) If you are in a job like culinary pull as much overtime as possible. Pick up every shift. Work two jobs. Find roommates. I labled food as an "Extravagance" and home became where I slept and nothing else. I was working at minimum 70 hour weeks for 3 years. People are literally walking out of bombed out houses all the way from Syria to Germany on foot. Overtime is a dream in comparison and what is coming in the USA... Overtime, discomfort and roommates are a cakewalk.

Is it healthy, fuck no. But it's better than dying and being given rohipnol like I was. And yes I was a teacher during a school shooting as well as almost shot for being queer, so I've been a little close to death.

3) I wouldn't just move to Germany because it's better. I do well here because my mindset is very close to Germans. Integration was easy and I was comfortable the whole time. Look for a country that matches your odd American edges that gets you in conflict with USians.

4) It is going to suck when you get here. Immigrants are a underprivileged class in other countries and you will be called an idiot, uneducated, and talentless. It is our stereotype here and you will not escape it.

Your first job and your first two years will try to pull your soul out of your eyeballs. I was required to take a German course that cost €220 a month while also working full time/overtime. It meant no weekend for 5 months and two hours of freetime a day. My first February here I had an appointment everyday and was still working overtime. And that's because Germany loves me and sees reasons to devote resources to me. It was the hardest thing I have ever done. Get the first job you can and keep a lookout for when your standing improves because your first job is almost garuanteed to suck ass.

5) Being on Germany's shit list is even worse. If you can get here patience and respect of every bureacrat is required and I still ran into one that stalled my progress until literally this month. Form connections with Germans or other Americans if you must. I would hazard against trying to find American enclaves. Integration is better than trying to retain your Americanisms in another country. You're trying to escape those anyways, right?

6) It will not be easy but it was one of the best choices I've ever made. Stick with your plans and don't falter. Be it saving before, picking up overtime, or your german lessons and integration when you get here.

7) Navigating German bureacracy is hard but if you get lucky there are bosses that will help you with moving and rent. Ther are bosses that will actually take you to immigration services or even pay part or all of your rent. Germany is dying for workers and it's possible in larger cities to find stuff like that EVEN as a cook. Or try to make some friends that might help you when you get there. @thatfrisiangirlish has been with me to almost every appointment from Ausländeramt to Einwohnermeldeamt.

8) Germany isn't perfect and I'd still avoid some states and areas. It still has it's problems with Fascism. Still has a problematic government and the work culture is incredibly strong. They refer to Germans as robots in europe because of it. I'd still argue I have never been happier.

#uspol #immigrantlife #workingclass #immigration #emmigration

Africa Events Sep 17, 2024

With over 3.6 million people having left the country in just two years, young Nigerians bemoan the decline of support systems and once-thriving communities.#emmigration #nigerianimmigrants #nigerians #japas #nigeria
As Young Nigerians Leave the Country, Community Building Suffers for It

As Young Nigerians Leave the Country, Community Building Suffers for It

With over 3.6 million people having left the country in just two years, young Nigerians bemoan the decline of support systems and once-thriving communities.

OkayAfrica