For obvious reasons, I desperately want to get out of the United States. Unfortunately, every country I look at doesn’t seem interested in gaining a retail worker with no savings.
Am I just fucked? Is anywhere accepting us as refugees? Is there anywhere that’s both relatively friendly to trans people AND relatively easy for an American to immigrate to?
Ironically the USA is known for historically having the least amount of legal barriers to allow for citizenship.
All other countries across the globe have austere strict policies because they dont want large quantities of immigrants that are unable to contribute back.
Sorry to burst your bubble, everyone else is unwilling to accept the amount of immigrants equivalent to what USA allows because the other countries dont want their taxes and well paid social welfare programs to help with people that aren’t part of their own society, nor has paid into it like its own citizens have done. It’s as simple as that.
The only type of immigrants that all countries want are wealthy ones or highly educated ones. They could not give two fucks about working-class immigrants because their own countries already have plentiful amounts of us peasants.
This is very wrong…
Nations like immigrants because they provide cheap labor and work hard while paying taxes into social welfare programs that citizens take advantage of. I think you are making a mistake that immigrants automatically become citizens in the country they come to, because they do not. It takes a long time to gain citizenship (and therefore access to social welfare) once you actually come to a new country.
This video is fun and explains the process: https://youtu.be/tXqnRMU1fTs
You don’t need citizenship to live other places, you just exist there as an expat. I’ve lived abroad from the US for nearly three decades as an expat and never even tried to get any other citizenship.