[tokioyoyo]

They’re right about 1 and 3, but not 2. Life has gotten much better in a good chunk of the world, that the opportunity loss for not moving to US is getting smaller. You can easily see it by immigration application numbers by country.

[lurk2]

> You can easily see it by immigration application numbers by country.

Where are you getting this information? Visa issuance more than doubled between 2020 and 2024.

https://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Annual...

[tastyfreeze]

Visa issuance doubling and having less applications from improving countries can both be true. I think you want issuance by place of birth to make the comparison OP is pointing out.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/v...

[lurk2]

> I think you want issuance by place of birth to make the comparison OP is pointing out.

I’m not seeing a year to year comparison on the page you linked. It’s calculable from the monthly figures, but I’ll wait and see if the GP responds with his own source.