00:00Is America still a promised land for Europeans?
00:09The European expat community in the U.S. has slightly shrunk since the 1980s,
00:16with a few fluctuations over the years, from over 5 million people to less than 4,800,000 people.
00:26After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the vast majority of arrivals came from Eastern Europe,
00:34while the share of Western and Southern Europeans began to steadily decline in the early 2000s.
00:4341% of all current European migrants in the U.S. are immediate relatives of U.S. citizens,
00:52while 30% was granted the green card thanks to employment-based preferences.
01:02Today, Eastern Europeans represent 46% of Europeans in the U.S.
01:10The largest nationality, however, is British, followed by German, Ukrainian, Russian and Polish, and Italian.
01:22Where are all these people?
01:24Most of them are concentrated in the states of New York and California.
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