Cultural code: three qualities of post-Soviet immigrants that Americans aspire to

People with experience of living in the United States can easily list things that Russian-speaking immigrants could learn from Americans. These include constant politeness towards strangers, diligence bordering on workaholism, optimism, efficiency, and so on. However, over time ...

The other side of the coin: when the strengths of immigrants can backfire

Not only psychologists, but also ordinary observers are sure that immigrants are, on average, stronger and more resilient than local residents. Find the strength to break away from your home, familiar places, familiar culture and well-established life, risk well-being and social status, ...

'I could have been stolen': how throwing children across the US border ends in tears and fear

In Texas, border patrols found an abandoned child. He said that he was with a group of immigrants who left him by the road. Writes about this NBC News. A video filmed in the Rio Grande Valley shows a boy crying and saying he doesn't know where ...

American Cheating: How to Protect Yourself in Business Relationships in the USA

Americans are mostly law-abiding - this simple truth is unlikely to be questioned by anyone who has the opportunity to compare life in the United States with the realities of the post-Soviet space. However, those Russian-speaking immigrants who do not have a lot of business experience should be careful to ...

Mistakes and actions of immigrants that can lead to the loss of a green card

The path to the status of a permanent resident of the United States (green card holder) is difficult and long. It offers many benefits, including the ability to obtain US citizenship in the future. But the green card can be lost due to the mistakes of the immigrant, writes the Miami Herald. What mistakes can cost you the right to live ...

Biden Administration Opens Border For Asylum Seekers Waiting In Mexico: In Texas This Caused A Crisis

The mayor of Del Rio, located on the Texas border, is asking US President Joe Biden to help his city, which is struggling with extreme weather conditions, the COVID-19 pandemic and an influx of illegal migrants crossing the border. More about all this told the publication Fox News. “I beg and ask ...

Abandoning the American Dream: the story of those who returned to their homeland

For some, a green card is a lifelong dream. And those who carry the American dream in their hearts sincerely do not understand those who won a green card but did not take advantage of this chance. Starting life from scratch in a foreign country is not always so easy...

After Biden's victory, immigrants from Mexico go to the US border en masse

The number of immigrants arriving at the US-Mexico border has skyrocketed in just a few months after Joe Biden's victory in the US presidential election. The New York Post reported in more detail. Acting Head of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Mark Morgan said the number ...

How Biden plans to change the US immigration system

A truly significant comprehensive immigration reform is unlikely to occur in the first few years of the Biden administration. After all, politics is as controversial as ever, and Democrats have no control over the Senate. However, this does not mean that significant changes in ...

Three things that ruined American impressions of Moscow

A couple of immigrants moved to the United States while still young. They had three children there. But they really wanted to visit their homeland, although they could not even predict how it would all be. Why did the now full-fledged Americans not like living in Moscow, ...

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