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After the rapid development of economic in recent years, immigration has become the most commonly talked about topic in China. However, because the information threshold of immigration industry is relatively high, many friends tend to go into some misunderstandings when talking about immigration. Today, let`s talk about seven things that Chinese people can easily misunderstand about immigration.
Misunderstanding 1:A poor woman cannot move.
This is really not, indeed, some countries` immigration programs are exclusive to Tuhao, such as British investment immigrants, 2 million pounds to start, Cyprus passports, 2 million euros to get started, and to exaggerate France. 10 million euros for temporary green cards, of course, these projects can not be moved.
But one figure few know is that skilled migrants who do not need to invest are the mainstream of Chinese immigrants compared with the investment migrants they like. According to previous official figures, about 190000 people give up Chinese nationality each year, not including more people who have received green cards without changing their nationality. In 2017, the number of high-net-worth immigrants in China exceeded 10000, and according to the one-person application, the family immigration rule is only about 50, 000, 10000 wealthy Chinese families. Compared with the number of hundreds of thousands of immigrants a year, it accounts for only a small proportion.
Australia, Canada and the United States are all countries that Chinese people like and can emigrate skillfully. Skilled immigrants generally require IELTS grades, professional experience, age and so on. After decades of efforts, China has trained a large number of skilled immigrants, and migrant countries can choose between the best and the best.
Even if you don`t have enough professional experience and don`t want to learn English and become skilled immigrants, there are still many ways to go out. Investment immigrants are not exclusive to Tuhao, there are many immigration programs, the average middle-class family can accept. Below I list some immigration projects with a threshold of less than 2 million for your reference.
Even the most expensive Greece above is just the money to go north and buy a single room.
Myth 2: after emigration, you go to be a "second-class citizen."
There are often enthusiastic friends who leave messages under our articles: "you teach others how to emigrate all day long. Don`t you know that emigration is to be a second-class citizen?" In fact, this is also a big misunderstanding.
Let`s take 4 million Chinese Americans as an example. Some media outlets say that the status of Chinese in the United States is so low that even black people are inferior to old Mexico, but they are only second-class citizen. This is nonsense at all. The data are the most direct proof. In 2017, the Pew Research Center released a report that conducted a detailed survey of the living conditions of 4 million Chinese Americans and gave intuitive results.
First of all, there are more than 4 million Chinese in the United States, the largest group of Asian Americans.
Compared with the median income of American households as a whole, the median income of Asian families is $66,000, while that of Chinese families is $65050, which is higher than the average of American residents.
In terms of education over the age of 25, the average level of undergraduate education for Americans is 28 percent, while that for Chinese is 51 percent, which is related to the particular importance that Chinese families attach to education.
Fifty-seven percent of Chinese think their lives are better than their parents. This is also the consensus of most Asians, with the exception of Japanese.
In terms of access to health care, Chinese are also higher than all immigrants, only slightly lower than local Americans.
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The sacrifices and efforts of generation after generation have given rise to the status of Chinese in the United States today. They have long been not second-class citizen, but an indispensable force in American society. They have contributed great power to the spread of Chinese culture and the rise of China. Some grandstanding media, using individual cases to try to exaggerate the discrimination of Chinese in the United States, will eventually go bankrupt in the face of objective data and the real situation.
Myth 3: foreigners will be foreigners after emigration, and Chinese hukou will be cancelled.
This is misleading by rumors. Immigrants don`t necessarily become foreigners, unless you have a passport directly, because China doesn`t allow dual nationality, so as long as you take a foreign passport, you must choose between Chinese nationality and foreign nationality. But, if you just take the green card will be different, you still Chinese people, no one has authority to cancel your Chinese account. After all, there are things in China, no account is a problem.
Myth 4: you can emigrate if you have a child abroad
Depending on the situation, the law of both the United States and Canada stipulates that as long as people born in this country, they automatically acquire nationality. But only children, the child`s parents can not obtain identity at the same time, have to wait until the child grows up before applying for family reunion. Other traditional immigration countries, such as Australia, New Zealand, and so on, do not automatically acquire nationality even if they are born there.
Myth 5: you can emigrate if you buy a house abroad
This depends on the country. Some European countries, such as Greece, Spain, Portugal and Cyprus, have home-buying immigration policies. Many Chinese take green cards while investing in real estate and kill two birds with one stone. But traditional immigration countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are not allowed. In order to limit housing speculation among foreigners, these countries have also introduced various taxes because they know that house is used to live, not to speculate, let alone as a condition for immigrants.
Myth 6: after emigration, I went to heaven.
Let me tell you a real story about me. More than a decade ago, I went to junior high school in an eighteen-tier small city. Our English teacher said that the United States is good every day. She listed some of her classmates who went to the United States. They said that government gave milk, money, and never paid for a child. It was all reimbursed, and then sighed to the whole class again: America is a paradise.
We almost believed it then.
Later, in politics class, the political teacher told us how bad it was in the United States. As you know, the political book at that time wrote that the United States was hell on earth. I don`t know if the current political book is still written like that.
We`ll be circled. Which teacher should we trust? Is America heaven or hell?
At that time, we were divided into two schools, one was Miao Hong, the other was smuggling and depraved, and there was a heated debate over whether the United States was good or not. At that time, there were no fifty cents and cents, and it was really because of their different views that people were not in any interest.
Later, when I grew up, I recalled this past, such as why the English teacher said that the United States is heaven, because she has friends in the United States, equivalent to friends in heaven, equivalent to her chance to go to heaven. It is equivalent to that she is much better than us. And why does the political teacher say America is hell, because that`s her job, even if she doesn`t think so, according to the book.
None of us poor 18th town students have ever been to the United States for three generations, so we can only listen to the nonsense of these "ulterior motives" teachers. Today`s children, in their teens, travel to the United States, Australia, Canada, and the Internet is so developed that if you still believe someone`s words, it`s really stupid. There will never be a paradise in this world once and for all, and the paradise will only appear in dreams. A good life depends on the hands of labor to create it.
Myth 7: when China is strong, immigrants will regret it
This misunderstanding has also been left by many friends. They said to me, "China is so strong now that you will regret it when you emigrate." regret this matter is really different from person to person. At least when the immigrants I met went out, they didn`t say they regretted it, but many people missed the easier time to emigrate in the early years, and now they regret it. Looking around the world, immigrants and countries are strong or not without direct relationship. We can look at the countries with the largest number of high net worth immigrants in 2017: China, the United Kingdom, France, but are now the most powerful countries in the world. Even the world`s largest power, the United States, has so many people giving up their nationality every year.
In fact, the strength of the country and whether you are doing well, relationship is not that big. Every time China improves its national strength, there will be a wave of immigrants, such as the ten years after 49, the ten years after the reform and opening up, and the ten years after the 2008 Olympic Games. And China`s current national strength is strong, as a whole, if we spread out to individuals, we are really just a developing country. 2017 China`s per capita annual disposable income is only 25974 yuan, only 1 / 15 in the United States. Moreover, immigrants do not have to change their nationality now. Many people take green cards, he is still Chinese, and he can continue to go back to China to work in order to build socialism.
