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Immigration from Chile to the U.S can be seen as early as the 1790s when merchant ships from Chile started to arrive at the California coast. The first biggest wave of Chilean immigrants to the US started during the California gold rush in 1848–49. A huge group of experienced miners from Chile made it to the gold fields and some stayed back and worked as bricklayers, bakers and seamen in San Francisco, San Jose and Stockton. The Chileans settled in an area called "Chilecito" (little Chile) in San Francisco. Few immigrants’ imported flour and mining equipment from Chile and established their businesses. In 1849 there were a majority of Chileans population in Sonora. Chileans were the first miners in California to extract gold from quartz. Historical remains of those influenced the names of these locations and are now known as Chileno Valley in Marin County, Chili Gulch in Calaveras and Chili Bar in Placer. The second main arrival into the United States was mainly due to the economic or academic opportunities available in the USA. In the early 1970’s several Chileans fled as exiles from Chile to the U.S seeking for higher education and economic reasons. The Valdivia earthquake in 1960 and Chile earthquake in 2010 made a huge group of Chileans follow economic opportunities that were available in the United States. The towns Chileans lived in California were often called "Chili towns," Chileans continued to migrate to the United States throughout the Pinochet regime looking for political and economic purposes. A huge group of Chileans are well versed in skills like entrepreneurs, judges and musicians. According to the U.S census there were 126,810 Chilean populations, who form the 4th smallest Hispanic, group from South America in the United States. Chileans have occupied New York, South Florida, Los Angeles County and San Francisco Bay Area. Most Chileans migrating to the United States settle in metropolitan areas. The streets of San Francisco were named after the former residents of Chile.

Migrating to a new country for better economic opportunities is inspiring, it is also essential that all new immigrants to USA need to have proper health insurance on arrival, especially in the present times of the Covid 19 pandemic. Adequate US immigrant health insurance plan will provide coverage for medical expenses incurred in case of any injury or illness. Healthcare in the US is very expensive as most advanced countries provide excellent medical facilities to its immigrants. Purchasing US short term immigrant insurance is easy at American Visitor Insurance and Chilean immigrants can compare several plans for prices and benefits according to their specific needs. The 24/7 customer support service by licensed agents will provide answers to all questions by the customers with instant policy documents by Email. Feel free to give us a call or email us and one of our customer support licensed agents will be able to help you.
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