Immigration guide to Los Angeles, USA

# American Immigration # Introduction What common sense and benefits do you need to know to immigrate to Los Angeles? I believe many people don't know much about it, and I don't have a life guide for immigrants in Los Angeles. I hope you can adapt as soon as possible.

1. Introduction to American immigrants' common sense of life

mediterranean climate

Southern California is rich in oranges, equivalent to the big apples in new york. Los Angeles has the nickname "Big Orange". As far as climate type is concerned, LA belongs to subtropical Mediterranean climate (Ke Ben classification), which is characterized by dry and high temperature in summer and warm and humid in winter. Generally speaking, the annual precipitation is less and the temperature difference is small.

Another famous feature of Los Angeles is the sunshine in California. The sunshine in southern California is strong, and many times even if the temperature is not high, you can feel a heat wave in the sun.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that because of the lack of water resources in Los Angeles and the need for artificial irrigation of green belts, the greening appearance of a city can often show its wealth.

The urban area is very big.

Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States, and the southern California urban agglomeration with Los Angeles as the core is also the second largest metropolitan area in the United States, which is a veritable giant city.

The population of metropolitan area is 13,13, 43 1: Compared with the population of 7092596 in San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, the population of Los Angeles metropolitan area has almost doubled. At the same time, the population of Greater London exceeds 84 16535, and that of ile-de-france exceeds 12005077.

Metropolitan area 12562 square kilometers: in contrast, the island area of Taiwan Province province is 36 193 square kilometers, and the jurisdiction area of Shanghai is 6340.5 square kilometers. The L.A. metropolitan area is about one-third that of Taiwan Province Island, or twice that of Shanghai.

economically advanced

The GDP is $860.4 billion (according to the Brookings Institution's data of 20 14): lower than Tokyo (161600 million) and new york (140.3 billion), ranking third in the world and higher than Seoul ($845.9 billion) and London ($8356). Close to the GDP of the Netherlands ($866.354 billion).

Industrial and entertainment center

As the second largest city in the United States, Los Angeles is naturally an industrial center and one of the best entertainment centers in the world in terms of development direction. In terms of scale, about 23 Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Los Angeles. With some Hollywood and some well-known emerging IT companies,

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Los Angeles is one of the cities with large scientific research output in the world. There is only one city in Southern California, including Los Angeles, several top research universities in the world, and many teaching universities and community colleges. The talent chain is endless, so it is also a popular destination for studying abroad.

There are many schools here, such as California Institute of Technology, UCLA, University of Southern California, California State University, California State University of Los Angeles, Antioch University, Loyola Mariman University, Loyola Law School, Mount Saint Mary College and Western College. The world-famous Hollywood is also located in this city, which, together with these, adds a lot of cultural atmosphere to this city.

Los Angeles is an extreme city,

If you like sunshine, beach, waves and cactus, this must be your ideal place;

You like driving and commuting, and you like sports. This place will certainly provide you with ideal conditions.

You yearn for international communication and seek life development, and there will be many opportunities waiting for you here.

2. Is it easy to find a job by emigrating to Los Angeles?

According to the data recently released by the US Department of Labor, the number of newly-added unemployed people in the United States fell to the lowest level in the past five months last week, indicating that the US economic growth has strong employment support. As of the week of July 15, the number of new unemployed people in the United States decreased by15,000 to 233,000, which was lower than the previous forecast of 245,000 by economists and the lowest level since February this year.

What district should I choose to immigrate to Los Angeles?

In the United States, Los Angeles is the most livable city among all cities in the United States, and it is the second largest city in the United States. Los Angeles is divided into four regions, and the population changes in each region are different. In the east and west of Los Angeles, this is the area where Chinese immigrate to Los Angeles the most. Although there are countless immigrants from China in the east and west of Los Angeles, great changes have taken place in the population in the east and west of Los Angeles. This is closely related to all aspects of Los Angeles culture. So which district should Los Angeles immigrants choose?

60% of China people live in the east of Los Angeles. It's like Shanghai in China, where you can communicate with others everywhere without speaking a foreign language, just like in China, because most of them are from China and everyone speaks Chinese. Most people who live in the west side of Los Angeles are white. Compared with the eastern part of Los Angeles, there are fewer Chinese in the western part, and the economic development in the eastern part is slightly faster than that in the western part.

3. What benefits can immigrants enjoy?

1. Newborn:

Children born in the United States to anyone in the United States (including illegal immigrants) are regarded as American citizens, hold American passports, have unlimited residence outside the United States, and can freely enter and leave the United States for life. /kloc-citizens aged 0/8 will legally enjoy all the rights and interests of American citizens after taking the oath, including immediately applying for American immigration for their spouses, children and overseas parents aged 2/kloc-0.

2. Student tuition:

/kloc-before going to college at the age of 0/8, all primary and secondary schools in the United States implemented compulsory education, that is, zero tuition (except private schools). In contrast, at present, relevant institutions in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou need more than 20,000 US dollars for primary and secondary schools to study in the United States. Going to college (including graduate students and doctoral students) only pays local tuition fees. Take California for example. In a medium-level California public university, foreign students pay more than12,000 dollars a year, while "locals" pay only more than 2,000 dollars a year at California State University. If a child completes three years of high school education and four years of college education in the United States, tuition alone can save about 500 thousand.

3. Scholarships:

For ordinary China people who are interested in applying for American university scholarships, they can only compete with outstanding people from all over the world for very limited scholarship places open to foreigners. But for people with green cards, the scope of scholarships is far from what a foreigner can apply for. Because many scholarship institutions in the United States limit scholarships to "Americans" (people with permanent residency in the United States). Therefore, after immigrating to the United States, children are far more likely to apply for scholarships than overseas students.

4. Student loans:

Green card holders with 18 or above can apply for various student loans in the year when they get their green cards. For example, the annual tuition fee of excellent private universities in the United States is as high as 30 thousand dollars. When a green card holder wants to study for a two-year master's degree, 60,000 to 70,000 dollars can be used as a loan. After graduation, if you can't find a job, you don't have to pay the loan. After finding a job, pay it off in years. Usually only one-tenth of the salary is repaid every month. In America, no one can't go to school because of financial difficulties.

5. Immediate family benefits:

All green card holders can apply for green cards for their spouses and their minor children under the age of 2 1 after marrying foreigners.

6. The government helps to find a job:

The United States government has specialized agencies to find jobs for Americans free of charge. As long as green card holders register their skills, specialties and interests in this department, this department will find jobs for people free of charge. At the same time, the department also provides free training in basic skills (such as computer and English) for people waiting for employment to help them find jobs.

7. Freedom of employment:

Green card holders have no restrictions on working in the United States. In order to protect the interests of Americans, many jobs in the United States (high-tech, biochemical, military and other research, production, security work) are not open to foreigners, even if foreigners have corresponding knowledge and expertise. This situation makes foreign students in extremely unequal competition with American students when they look for jobs after graduation from university. The green card holder need not worry, he (she) can change from an "inferior party" to an "excellent party".

8. Retirement benefits:

Accumulated ten-year tax records (the bottom line is about $50 per month), and after retirement (usually 65 years old), you can receive a pension issued by the US federal government for life (1000 ~ 1200 dollars per month). For many immigrants, the number of years of receiving a pension is more than the number of years of paying taxes.

9. Unemployment benefits:

When an applicant, spouse or even a child has no job after transferring to a green card, the government will find a job for you for free. With a six-month tax record, you can get government relief (ranging from $400 to 1200 per month) when you declare unemployment to local authorities in the United States.

10. Life and Fund:

Green card holders can enjoy some life insurance types linked to funds that are not available in China but only in the United States, so that they can have more income after retirement.

1 1. old-age medical insurance:

In the United States, medical expenses are quite high, but any "low-income" green card holder (with no tax record) can apply for a "medical card" after retirement, and it is no longer necessary to spend money to see any disease with the card. This can completely relieve the worries of the elderly who are sick. For non-low-income people, as long as they have a ten-year accumulated tax record and pay a small amount of insurance after retirement, they don't have to bear the medical expenses themselves.

12. Housing subsidy:

Green card holders can apply for buying apartments for low-income elderly people after retirement. You can buy a house subsidized by your country in the United States at about 35% of the market price.

13. government subsidies:

When a green card holder has no accumulated tax record for ten years before retirement, as long as he becomes an American citizen, the government will directly pay a living allowance (more than 600 US dollars per month) after retirement (65 years old). Even if I don't live in America, I can enjoy the money.