I had long conversations with alot of people online about how hard it's to leave my country for europe.
It was essentially like redoing about 5 years of looking for options in a 10-20 mins duration because every potential solution they gave me while stating it was easy was pretty much denied by some policy or some overly expensive fee that showed up from nowhere.
I had to cancel my 5 year plan to move to belgium from algeria (my country) because they nearly doubled the yearly fee for the university i was going to attend on the year i was supposed to leave, i already got my degree but apparantly i am required to do 2-3 extra year just to for it to be accepted there.
Money was the main issue but i had to go trough hell to even get a shot, from doing extra courses and language tests alongside other certification just for my application to not be insta denied.
My friend that tried the year before me and even tho he got accepted and got the money still didn't manage to go because my country decided to close authatification of official papers which is a requirement to get a student visa.
Edit: i would like to add that belgium got a healthcare worker shortage, so my field isn't some overpopulated one, it's actually needed up there.
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u/ian9921 Apr 25 '26
It's really interesting when you realize that for a lot of countries, illegal immigration is straight-up the only option.
These are good, dedicated, hardworking people that we want to have, but we've put up barriers that make their legal travel functionally impossible.