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How immigrant parents move to the USA to sit with their grandchildren

When Rita Shechtman arrived in the US from Ukraine in 1991, her two grandchildren were already living with their parents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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She and her husband arrived in the United States to look after the kids, who were then 6 and 7 years old, so that their parents would have time to work full time, she writes. Post-gazette.

“I cooked, washed, drove them to school and did homework with them right up to college,” said 81-year-old Shechtman, now a US citizen.

According to her, in the US, childcare costs a lot of money, and not everyone can afford these expenses, so she is happy to come to the USA and help children.

For many years, immigrant grandparents have moved to the United States not in search of a better job or life, but to help their children raise their children.

And every year the number of such immigrants only increases.

Thanks to these international nannies, more immigrant mothers have the opportunity to fully work in the United States, and their children to learn the language and culture of their ancestors.

But with the immigration reform proposed by the Donald Trump administration, things can change.

In an effort to limit the number of foreign nationals entering the country, the Trump administration is considering reducing visas for family reunification, which is the type of immigration most used by grandparents to move to the United States.

President Trump calls this “chain migration”, but abandoning it can severely reduce opportunities for older people to immigrate to the US to help their children, thus limiting the opportunity for young immigrants to work.

“I am proud to have helped. My grandchildren have grown up, but they call me every day to ask how things are going, ”Shechtman admitted.

According to a study by the University of the District of Columbia, Shechtman was part of an ever-growing trend of older people coming to the United States to look after their grandchildren.

Immigration in the US of people from 65 years and older increased from 9% in 1990-s to 12% these days. And their arrival in a peculiar way fills the labor market in the United States, as it frees young mothers from caring for children, allowing them to work.

Scientists estimate that when immigrant grandparents live with their daughters and grandchildren, the proportion of daughters in the US labor force increases by 7,4%.

They also suggest that the recent increase in the number of immigrants from China and India, arriving to work in high-tech industries in the US, will soon lead to a wave of immigration from these countries of grandparents.

Many older people come to the United States on B-2 visas. These are visas for tourists that allow people to stay in the country for up to six months. Between 2000 and 2014, the number of B-2 visas issued to people aged 50 has increased from less than 5 million to about 13 million.

But not all grandparents who come to the States to nurse their grandchildren are intended to stay in the United States for a long time.

Often, the grandmother receives a B-2 visa, travels to the USA and cares for her grandchildren for 6 months, and then travels back; whereupon the grandfather comes on the B-2 visa and takes care of the grandchildren for the next 6 months. Sometimes grandparents through the other parent are involved in this cycle, which allows almost not to leave children unattended and not need to search for babysitters.

For example, in Philadelphia there are about 42 foreigners over the age of 000. About 60% of them live with grandchildren, by comparison, of the 12 older Americans born in the United States, only 225% live with grandchildren.

On the one hand, they help, but on the other, older people have a much more difficult time learning English, especially if they constantly have to stay at home with their grandchildren, so their adaptation to a new country takes much longer and is more difficult.

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