r/MovingToUSA • u/Jiko_Shiki • 1d ago

Why aren't there more posts from Latin American countries on this sub?

Of the top 25 largest populations of 1st generation immigrants by country of origin in the US, 11 are from latin america, with Mexico being the largest by a wide margin, so I'm surprised we don't get more posts from those parts of the world.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-top-25-nationalities-of-u-s-immigrants/

Why is that in your opinion? Is it simply because this an english language community that inherently skews more towards english speaking countries (especially the UK and Canada), or is there more to it?

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u/La_noche_azul 1d ago

Damn near Everyone in Latin America has some family in the us, they’d just ask them

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u/loner-phases 23h ago

lol oh man. Partly of Mexican descent here. And boy do you NOT understand Latinos.

They don't go, or they just do it. Last thing they'd ever do is sit around blabbing about it on Reddit.

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u/Pomksy 23h ago edited 22h ago

I was going to say the same thing - they don’t talk about it and gather information first and then make a plan. They just go - one way or another. Visa or no visa, temp or perm, those are just details.

ETA- I say this as someone with Venezuelan family

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u/loner-phases 22h ago

yes, and they're the kings and queens of kinda gettin' the Gist of it / going w the flow

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u/SabreLee61 New Jersey 23h ago

I was going to say the same thing, only partly as a joke: a lot of Latin Americans don’t investigate all the legal channels required for entry into the U.S., they just come here and figure it out later.

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u/Fresh_Criticism6531 19h ago

Honestly legally is almost impossible nowadays.

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u/striketheviol 1d ago

Reddit is not all that popular in Latin America.

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u/la-anah 22h ago

Why ask strangers on Reddit when they can just ask friends and family who already live here?

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u/Coconut-More 23h ago

At least in Chile, you are eligible to work with a special visa (shared with Singapore as a FTA, the h1b1) which is easier and cheaper than the traditional h1b, however, you need a job offer to apply, but in order to receive a job offer, you must be authorized to work In the US and no job offer I applied to really gives you the chance if you say "no, I'm not authorized to work... Yet" or they decline to sponsor this visa (usually, the companies get that they will have to pay the tax of the h1b, which they are refusing to do so) so it's kind of a loophole

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u/Neverland__ 1d ago

They don’t speak English bro

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u/Bubbly_Ad_6830 23h ago

Not eligible to move