why do migrants face challenges notes

• a migrant needs a passport to legally emigrate from a country and a visa to legally immigrate to a new country
• two reasons that most visas are granted are for specific employment placement and family reunification
• U.N. classifies countries according to four types of immigration policies
• maintain the current level of immigration
• increase the level
• reduce the level
• no policy
• unauthorized immigrants are those who are entering without proper documents
• three groups
• unauthorized immigrants
• undocumented immigrants
• illegal alien
• information about unauthorized immigrants
• distribution
• source country
• children
• years in the united states
• labor force
• quotas are the maximum limits on the number of people who could immigrate to the united states during a one-year period
• years key modifications were made in the U.S.
• 1924
• 1965
• 1978
• 1990
• 12 million immigrants to the united states between 1892 and 1954 were processed t Ellis Island
• Ellis Island became part of the statue of liberty national monument in 1965
• congress set preferences for the number of applicants for admission to the united states far exceeds the quotas
• family reunification
• skilled workers
• diversity
• typical wait for a spouse to gain entry is currently about 5 years
• quota does not apply to refugees
• other countries charge that by giving preference to skilled workers immigration policies in the united states as well as developed countries
• brain drain us a large-scale emigration by talented people, scientists, researchers, doctors, and other professionals migrate to countries where they can make better use of their abilities
• chain migration which is the migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there
• the uniqueness of each of our immigration experiences has many dimensions
• timing
• origin
• diversity