when people leave a country they lower the nation s labor force and consumer spending if the country they are leaving has an oversaturation of the labor force this can result in the positive effect of relieving unemployment rates on the other hand the countries receiving the emigrants tend to benefit from more available workers who also contribute to the economy by spending money 1
while emigration usually represents people leaving a country immigration is the process of a country receiving people who left another country in other words immigration is the result of emigration for the receiving country for example people might say they immigrated to the united states which is where they now have permanent residence but they emigrated from spain many countries regulate the number of people that can emigrate or immigrate from one country to another in the united states the number of people who emigrate and eventually become permanent residents are tracked and totaled by the u s citizenship and immigration services uscis which is part of the department of homeland security dhs in q4 2022 286 000 noncitizens obtained lawful permanent residency status in the u s approximately half of these entered the united states as new arrivals with slightly more than half having had their status adjusted within the united states 2in q4 2022 42 of immigrants came from india mexico china cuba or the dominican republic 2fiscal impact of emigration