Immigration in United States - Impact, Reasons, Attempts to Stop and Economy

IMMIGRATION IN UNITED STATES
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Immigration in US......................................................................................................................2
Irish and German immigration in 1800s....................................................................................3
Jewish and Italian immigration in the late 1800s and early 1900s.............................................3
Chinese immigration in 1800s...................................................................................................4
Vietnamese immigration in the 1960s and 1970s......................................................................4
Argument of thesis.....................................................................................................................5
The impact of immigration in contemporary perspectives.....................................................5
Reason for the immigration in different cases........................................................................5
Acceptance of the residents of USA.......................................................................................5
Attempts made for stopping immigration...............................................................................6
The impact of immigration in US economy...........................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................8
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Introduction
Immigration refers to an international practice of movement to a new destination of which the
immigrants do not possess citizenship. In other words, immigrants are not natives of the new
place. People tend to immigrate for a number of reasons. It is quite evident that migration is a
two way beneficial process. Both the sender and receiver countries find it profitable to allow
migration. This study is based on different aspects of migration in the US. The study also
analyses different mass immigration timeline to identify the drivers to the immigration. The
study incorporates some of the critical aspect of this context such as the level of acceptance
among the natives and impact of immigration in contemporary scenario as well as economy.
Immigration in US
The structure of the immigration process in the USA has changed a lot. According to the
rules of the USA, A foreign citizen willing to immigrate should be sponsored by a US citizen
who is an immediate relative or prospective employer (Hogan and Haltinner, 2015). These
legislations of USA in the context of immigration are quite diverse in nature. The steps of
immigration process are quite lengthy. The first step involved in this context was submitting
a petition. After approval of the petition, the National Visa Centre (NVC) processing is
begun. Consular Electronic Application centre processing is also begun. The next step in the
process is about submitting the forms as well as the documents to the NVC. The steps
included in this process are Submitting Visa Application Form, Collection of Financial
Documents, Collection of Supporting documents and the documents to the NVC. Interview is
one poof thee most crucial step in the course of US migration (Ma and Hofmann, 2019). A
candidate must prepare well for the interview as in most cases; candidates are rejected at this
point. Immigrant Visa is very important for people who want to live permanently in USA. In
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