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3 Steps To Make Money In The U.S. As A Foreigner

Name: 3 Steps To Make Money In The U.S. As A Foreigner
Uploaded: 2026-01-08T17:45:04+00:00
Duration: 26 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this concise instructional monologue, the speaker outlines a three‑step strategy for non‑U.S. residents to earn income from U.S. clients. First, they…

8 Jan 2026 · 0 min

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In this concise instructional monologue, the speaker outlines a three‑step strategy for non‑U.S. residents to earn income from U.S. clients. First, they stress the importance of learning English and securing reliable internet access. Second, they advise saving enough to purchase a laptop or smartphone, which serves as the essential tool for remote work. Third, they recommend offering services to U.S. customers, leveraging superior English proficiency to command higher U.S. rates while benefiting from lower living costs abroad, thereby creating an arbitrage advantage over domestic workers lacking language skills.

Number 1 money-making rule if you weren't born in the US is learn English, get a connection to the internet, save as much as you can so that you can just buy a laptop or a smartphone, and then start doing services in the US as somebody who's not in the US. But the better you speak English, the more you command US prices, but then you arbitrage between what you make here versus what you have to spend wherever you're at. In some ways, you have an advantage over people in the US who have also no skills in English because they have to incur the cost of the US, but you don't.