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Who would do that much work just to be a US citizen?
She is from North Macedonia, deep balkan. Most places of the world are better than there, if you are looking for a professional carreer
If most places of the world are better, the question still is why the US?
She could just used the open borders of the EU and moved by car to an even better place.
They still pay the highest.
Unfortunately, the mental cost is catching up.
Space infrastructure is the biggest there. Next may be Russia and China, Russian economy doesn't look good nowadays and the Chinese language barrier is huge. EU and others are much more behind those 3.
There is also that thing that, unlike Russia or China, US is a democracy
EU software engineer here: at least until recently, I would've preferred to work in the US too. Significantly better pay.
Lady on the photo apparently is an astronaut. I'd wager NASA opportunities at the time were better than ESA.
Edit: apparently an “analog” astronaut, so she does practice missions on Earth. Still, probably better opportunities in the US.
US has good advertisement with "the american dream." And hollywood.
Also if you find out that's bs through asylum you get an electronic bracelet and can't leave until you after you settled down. So no Canada.
I feel like it's just her piling her work (unrelated to the green card) to demonstrate it and not necessarily the process itself?
But in all honesty, that's just my understanding of the picture, I have no idea how that process works.
I needed more than a binder’s worth for a student visa turned spousal visa in Germany, I can believe a hyper specific visa needing this much documentation.
Most of the world if that's all it took (circa 2024 at least). The US isn't the best place to live, and it's worse than places like Western Europe or the Nordics, but to someone from a third world country it's still much better than what they can get at home.
The hourly rates are what entices them, much more than they could earn in a month. Why some are willing to do tedious dirty work that others push away.