ABSTRACT
The portrait of the Soviet immigrant which emerged from the survey in the Twin Cities revealed much expected information and several noticeable surprises. The average cost for visa fees, applications, renunciation of Soviet citizenship, and miscellaneous costs connected with emigration amounted to 927 rubles per person. Soviet Jewish immigrant children do often attend religious school on a part-time or full-time basis. While Soviet immigrants seem to have partaken of many of the material benefits of life in the USSR, a high degree of political and religious-national alienation was observable in the responses. Immigrants appeared exceptionally critical of the agencies' emphasis on finding "work," rather than "employment" or a "profession." the data acquired from the Minneapolis-St. Paul immigrant community does suggest that the majority of newcomers are becoming integrated into the American system and are achieving a reasonable and sometimes advanced level of success.
