Immigration Status: A Personal Analysis

About 13% of the United States population are immigrants. Most immigrants come to the United States due to the many opportunities that this country offers. The American dream is often referring to the ideal life that an immigrant might obtain in the United States. The American dream is different for everyone, some want to study, others will like to be homeowners, or become rich; whichever goal an immigrant sets for themselves once they arrive in the U.S becomes their American dream. There are several factors that stop immigrants from achieving their goals, for example the language barrier, a complete change in lifestyle, and even racism. However, the biggest struggle for an immigrant is not to adapt to their new ambiance; the most difficult

Studying to be a physician requires lots of effort and time. To an immigrant like me, I tried to manage my studies, volunteer work, and adjusting to a new culture at the same time. I like to stick with my plans, and it has always been my plan to enter medical school on 2018. However, my road to entering medical school didn’t come as easy to me. After transferring to University, two of my close family passed away.

I was born in a small ranch in Mexico, and raised in Oregon .My first year and a half I grew up with only my mother and grandmother, my father in the US trying to raise enough money to send to my mom and me . I came to the United States with my mom at the time in only understood Spanish. The Spanish language stayed with me up until I was 3 , I was the only child but my older cousins taught me a new foreign language. From the moment I learned to speak English to almost 14 years later, being a year away fro graduation its been a big struggle. Fighting against the "I cant's" and "failure" it's been a bumpy ride. Something that has really shaped my life is, as I grew up I didn't quite understand the meaning of immigrant, my 7 year old mind didn't

I grew up learning everything myself and my mom never really listened to me and because of that now I'm used to keeping everything to myself and she wonders why but that is not her fault. I had to survive, that’s what I call it because you either had to hide the certain special things you wanted and expect the worst out of your older brothers. There were never any words of advice from my older brothers towards me and at the moment given I was only allowed to see my father on the weekends. When my father said specific things he said is using big words, and at the moment I was too young and he was very wise as he had been in my position. My two older brothers have a different dad than my older brother and I. The time my mom was struggling in working and not receiving help from no one and had to maintain 4 male children that fought for food as it was scarce and fought for clothing even if it was too big or too small. This has made me realize that the image a

Jose Vargas tells the story of his life; from coming to America, finding out that he is residing here illegally, learning how to live with that, and finally to sharing with everyone that he is an undocumented immigrant. Jose has a difficult task in front of him, though. He must win his audience over to his side so that he can further his agenda of developing an easier path for undocumented immigrants to receive citizenship. There are many ways he could go about this, trying to skirt the topic of his illegal activities, but Jose is an intelligent man and knows how to influence his audience. He uses the story of his life to connect with others, and in connecting with them wins them over, even if only indeterminably so. In My Life as an

Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, shares his life-long journey as an undocumented immigrant in his text, “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant.” As the title suggests, Vargas attempts to convey to his audience, who likely never has and never will experience anything similar to what he has, what it is like to live as an immigrant in the United States of America. Skillfully, Vargas details the perfect number of personal stories to reach the emotional side of his audience, which is anyone who is not an immigrant. Through the use of his personal accounts Vargas is able to effectively communicate that immigrants are humans too while simultaneously proving his credibility, as he has experience and a vast amount of knowledge

Immigration has changed a lot throughout the years in American history, not only in laws about immigration, but about places where immigrants came from, and the different races that immigrated. These factors have changed throughout history by shaping the social and economic aspects of the United States. Immigration has changed for the better and for the worse. It has gone to as far as making camps for Japanese Americans and deporting them and taking their belongings, to as low as giving immigrants papers and letting them stay.

While reading The Immigration Kaleidoscope: Knowing the Immigrant Family Next Door I could not help but think back to when I was working in the restaurant industry. A lot of the kitchen workers had immigrated to America from various countries but mostly Mexico. One of my favorite coworkers Anna, who moved to America from Mexico to send money back to her family, forcing her to leave her young daughter behind.

Immigrating to the United States in 1993 from the former Soviet Union, my parents were forced to escape from their war-ridden countries with no money or knowledge of English. Neither of them pursued a higher education since they needed to monetarily support our family after I was born a year later. Consequently, being the firstborn to two immigrant parents became my most challenging obstacle growing up. The language barrier was difficult to overcome since no one taught me English; I spoke strictly Russian at home and began my education in a Jewish school learning Hebrew. When the time came to apply to middle and high school, I recognized that I would also not be able to rely on my parents for advice about colleges since neither of them completed

When I was young my grandmother taught me to always help others. Even those who may be mean or undeserving of it. There were many stereotypes and jokes made about me but she still wanted us to always help others. I learned to go with the flow and let it go. This lesson and the value in helping others helped me especially in high school. During my junior year in high school I began to take an interest in a program call Opportunities in Emergency Care. That year I was certified as a first aid provider and in CPR. As a senior I continued my education in this field. I am now a certified Emergency Medical Responder and I will be a certified Emergency Medical Technician. I have had many occasions to apply the knowledge and skills I gained, by working

Hopelessly lost at first, my journey began to feel like an exciting new adventure. Settling in a new country has many negative effectsas one adapts to the new culture, people and starting a life from step one.Drastic cultural differences became an obstacle for my parents as it was difficult to adapt to this society with new morals, roots, and lifestyle. Immigrants must make the decision if they want to blend in and follow the foreign culture or continue to stick to their own culture. Making a decision was not an option in my family, it was clear that it’s our duty to carry on our culture and traditions regardless of where we end up around the world. However, it’s important to find a balance between staying true to one’s roots and being able toevolve with the new environment and assimilate to the society, otherwise, one may become isolated.I remember observing my mom, quietly sufferingin loneliness as she left everyone she knew, her family and friends, to a country where she had no one.However, with time, she found ways to stay in touch with her friends and family and made new friends in Canada as well.One of the most significant outcomes that moving countries has on immigrants, including myself, is language barriers as it has remained to be a prevalent challenge for many immigrants, particularly during the initial stages of settlement. A study conducted by the Canadian government showed that 32% of job seekers experienced language barriers as an issue (Statistics Canada, 2005). I remember going to school for the first time in Canada and being extremely terrified to interact with other people who spoke a language I hardly knew. I had forgotten my lunch and wasn’t able to communicate this to anyone so I busted into tears as I struggled to convey such a simple message. Moving countries can be a risky decision to make as you have to leave everything behind, in hopesthat you

I am writing this letter to require further investigation to my request for non-immigrant visa (B1/B2) on May 1, 2017. The sole purpose of my travel is to attend my cousin’s graduation commencement to show our support as a family. The graduation will take place in the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona on May 12, 2017.

My parents, my brother and I came from Guatemala in 2000 the reason for our departure was to escape violence and misfortunes. My family suffered the kidnapping and murder of my nephew despite having paid a ransom of an immense amount of money. We had to leave our lives, property, and everything of value behind. In December of the year 2000 when we arrived to California, my English was below basic due to the minimum required study of the English language at the university in my home country. Although, I understood very little English at the time my determination to learn the language made persevere a better education.

I got a call from ILS about your visa. They said, that insurance must cover all period staying in Russia. It's means , that with your travel insurance your visa will be only for 10 days (from Mar 10 - Mar 20).

Here are some representative stories of immigrants during the time period of this book. I think you will enjoy reading them. Due to some sensitive matters, a few of these folks preferred to remain anonymous.