It was high ranked last year, is it still high ranked now?

With the €100k fees for certain visas, with all the news about ICE, with the requirement to have public social media profiles to get in combined with the other news about people getting deported for having politically unacceptable opinions?

According to this, the USA was net-negative on immigration by 1.4 million people between Jan and June 2025, but I don't know how seasonal things and partial data modify that: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/08/21/key-findi...

Blip, or long term change? I also don't know.

> And the US is one of the top immigrant countries in the world. Always worth reflecting why people choose that

It's nowhere the top as a percent of the total population. It's at the top in absolute number because it's the largest developed country by far.

Comparison is hard, because states themselves are the size (land and population) as other countries. People that would be counted "immigrants" elsewhere are not.

E.g. Switzerland has an unusually high immigrant population, but also an unusually high emmigrant population.

The U.S. has 52m immigrants and 4.8m emmigrants. [1] Nowhere else is nearly that ratio. Next closest would be Canada.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_im...

Money. You get paid much better in the US, you just have to accept the physical and mental implications of what it brings with it.

That's really it.

Even adjusted for CoL and public benefits, the U.S. pays well, at least on the upper end.

The US is a top immigrant country because it isn't bombing itself, and there is still the perception that one can go from nothing to something - but that barn door is closing, for sure.