10 points? Why do many foreign students rather stay here illegally than go back home?

Question

I have many friends who are international students in college. They are college graduates and held OPT for a year. It has been expired, but they still stay in the US working illegally under $10 per hour.

The surprise thing was they came from very wealthy families in their home countries. Why do they want to be illegal aliens and do manual labor in the US?

Answer 1

Many abuse the F1 and student visa program as a means to immigrate to the US. They came knowing they would overstay. Until recently the US did not do much about it.

Things have changed. Let your friends know that when they are caught they will be deported and banned from returning.

Marriage won't change that either.

Answer 2

They stay with the hopes of getting a job and renewing their OPT. Right now a lot of students that have graduated with degrees in IT or other jobs have to prove to immigration that there is a demand for the job they are applying for in the part of the country they are applying. And since alot of the jobs are being outsourced now my guess is that they are trying to make money to get back home.....Their families may be wealthy but it doesn't mean that they don't get disappointed in the student for not getting a job after graduation.

Answer 3

maybe they like the US better

Answer 4

Life style in the U.S. and family expectations. Just because they come from money does not mean that the will have money when they return home.

Answer 5

Um I'm legal in college and make under 10 an hour (have two jobs though)

Two reasons first one is that the US is one of the few first world countries that is not socialistic in nature, meaning you DO have a chance to get ahead in life. Secondly the US is not quite as swamp with political correctness as some other countries (we still have it though), Europe and Australia is very liberal overall and that could push any conservatives in those other countries to the US.

There could be other reasons too or ones that are different altogether, ask them yourself and let me know.

Answer 6

I don't know. I suppose they are hoping things will get better. I have always thought that if I was in a situation like that, I would just go back to my country.

Answer 7

I am an America. I have traveled abroad to the second world and the third world and there I discovered the why America is in the 1st world.  

You can blame people for wanting to be successful like Bill Gates.  And you have to understand Bill Gates would not have been successful if he hadn't been American.

Honestly, this is something every American needs to learn, and it can only be learned by experencing the world.

Do it, and then you'll understand why so many people dream of one day being just like you.

Answer 8

American girls are the best that's why!

Answer 9

Because some people don't like their country's way of doing things or don't like the education level and want to proceed a higher degree of education.