The unappealable victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. elections of the past mates has fallen like a bucket of cold water on Democratic Party supporters and voters, who cannot believe they are about to witness four years of the Republican leader’s term in office.
For this reason, some are already considering drastic measures such as emigrating. As published in the Daily MailGoogle searches for “moving to Canada”. increased by 1270%. in the 24 hours after polls closed on the U.S. East Coast on Tuesday, company data show.
Similar searches on moving to New Zealand increased by almost 2000%.while those from Australia increased by 820%.
Late Wednesday night on the East Coast of the United States, Google searches for emigration reached record highs for all three countries, according to a Google employee.
The search giant does not provide absolute figures, but data from the website Immigration New Zealand showed that the site registered some 25,000 new users U.S. on November 7, up from 1,500 on the same day last year.
Immigration attorneys are also receiving an increase in petitions: “Every half hour there is a new email inquiry.”said Evan Green, managing partner of Canada’s oldest immigration law firm, Green and Spiegel.
Some stakeholders say they feared for their country, their safety or both after Trump’s election. Even before the election, those fears were increasingly cited by Americans seeking to immigrate to Canada, according to Heather Bell, an immigration consultant with the Vancouver law firm Bell Alliance. However, few are able to pull it off, Bell said.
“Emigrating to Canada is not easy.especially now that the government is reducing the number of temporary and permanent immigrants coming to the country,” he says.