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These are the richest immigrants in the United States in 2025 • Millionaires • Forbes Mexico

10 July 2025

When you live in an oppressed and totalitarian country like me I lived, and you have no money, there is no feeling of having a future or that life will improve, so you wonder if there is any hope, ”says billionaire Steven Udvar-Hazy, 79, who emigrated to New York from Hungary when he was a child, he packed boxes in a store of Manhattan for 30 cents and then The aircraft rental industry.

“When you leave that situation and arrive in the United States, you have a completely different value system from the people who were born here, accustomed to their environment and all the comforts, freedoms and material goods that surround us,” says Udvar-Hazy. “So you start from a different perspective: you value the creation of value, you value the people who will help you and you are more prone to establish goals and objectives, because you want to get away from that story and that past as soon as possible. The level of motivation is totally different from that of a person who was born and grew up here.”

Udvar-Hazy is one of the 125 American citizens born abroad that appear on the list of billionaires forbes And that currently reside in the United States, an increase of more than one third compared to our last 922222. These immigrants come from 43 countries and represent 14 % of the almost 900 fortunes of the country. These American immigrants have a record joint of 1.3 billion dollars and have 18 % of the 7.2 billion dollars of the total richness of the multimillionaires of the United States.

Three of the 10 richest people in the United States (and world) are immigrants, including the richest person in the world: Elon Musk, 54, was born in South Africa and arrived in the United States via Canada as a university student. Currently, its fortune is estimated at 393.1 billion dollars. The Google co -founder, Sergey Brin, 51, is the second richest immigrant, with a fortune estimated at 139.7 billion dollars. Brin’s family moved to the United States from Russia when he was 6 years old to escape the anti -Semitism they suffered in his native country.

The third richest immigrant in the United States, the co -founder and executive director of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, 62, was born in Taiwan and moved to Thailand as a child with his family. When Huang was nine years old, his parents sent him already his older brother to the United States to escape from generalized social discomfort in Thailand. Huang, whose fortune is estimated at 137.9 billion dollars, is one of the 11 billionaire immigrants in Taiwan, compared to 4 of 2022. That is enough to tie Taiwan with Israel as nations with the second largest number of multimillionaire immigrants in the list forbes of 2025, and to give Taiwan the right to show off as the country with the greatest jump since the last time we analyze the multimillionaire immigrants. Among the new faces of Taiwan are the cousin of Huang and rival in the manufacture of chips, the executive director of AMD, Lisa her. Its, 55, is one of the only 17 multimillion -dollar immigrants who are women, compared to 10 of 2022.

Another new woman in the ranks is Maky Carrieneh, born in Iran. “Being immigrant is about looking for the best opportunities and learning to adapt to new environments while clinging to their fundamental values,” says Zanganeh, 54, who moved for the first time to the US. UU. To work for a robotic surgery company in 2002 after directing the company’s European operations. Now she is the executive co -director of the Biotechnology Company Summit Therapeutics, whose actions increased almost 200% in the last year, promoting Zanganeh to the ranks of the billionaires, thanks to the promising candidate for drug against the company’s lung cancer. “In business, it is the same: you must keep alert, evolve constantly and be resilient enough to prosper regardless of challenges. That mentality has shaped my success.”

India added the second largest number of immigrant billionaires to the list of Forbes (5) and surpassed Israel as the cradle of the largest number of immigrant billionaires (12). Among the newcomers of India are Lastá Pichai, executive director of Alphabet, 53; Satya Nadella, director of Microsoft, 57; And Nikesh Arora, also 57, who directs the Cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks since 2018.

Patrias of multimillionaire immigrants

The 125 billionaire immigrants identified by Forbes come from 43 countries. However, almost two thirds of them were born in these 10 nations.

Although more than a quarter of the American club of the three commas inherited their fortune, 93% of immigrant billionaires made themselves. Almost two thirds of them enriched themselves in the technological sector (where 53 immigrants became billionaires) or financial (28).

The Israeli risk capitalist Oren Zeev, 60, is among these finance experts. “What helped me to succeed, I think, was that, thanks to my different origin, I could think and operate differently from most risk capitalists who studied in the same universities, they were related and influenced each Uber merchandise. “I think it was easier for me to be nonconformist, which, of course, could be very positive in risk capital.”

It is not surprising that many came to the United States for the university and they never left, including Musk and the 65 -year cybersecurity tycoon Jay Chaudhry, who had never been on a plane before when he flew from his native India to attend the postgraduate school at the University of Cincinnati in 1980. The owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars, Shahid Khan, 74 years to the US at 16, using most of his family’s savings on a trip to the University of Illinois in Urbano-Champaign. In 24 hours, I had already experienced a version of the American dream, getting a job washing dishes winning $ 1.20 per hour, more than the “99% of people” at home. “From that moment on, I had a sense of gratitude, humility and empowerment that I had never had,” says Khan, the founder of the Flex-N-Gate Automobile Components manufacturer, who has donated about $ 30 million to his Alma Mater.

Noubar Afeyan, 62, also came to the US. To study. He fled from the Lebanese Civil War to Montreal with his parents in 1975 before obtaining his doctorate in biochemical engineering at MIT in 1987 and throwing roots in Massachusetts, where he lives and where he co-founded and presides over the manufacturer of Modern COVID-19 vaccines. In June, AFEYAN was asked to reflect on his trip and share his wisdom with new US citizens in a naturalization ceremony organized by the presidential library John F. Kennedy in Boston. His advice for new immigrants, he tells Forbes also applies to Americans whose ancestors arrived at the US. UU. A long time ago. That is because, according to Afeyan, it is not necessary to be an immigrant to have an immigrant mentality.

“The immigrant mentality basically says: ‘They owe me nothing, I have no right to these things by birth; I have to work to get it and take charge of improving it,” says Afeyan. “The path of immigration is usually full of adversities, but the resilience acquired when traveling is an advantage if you decide to take advantage of it in that way. The more expectant and demanding you become, the less immigrant you become and the more that advantage dissipates.”

This immigrant mentality is what has made the United States great, according to Afeyan. “I have seen many different countries and cultures, and there is really no place as the United States as’ land of immigrants,” he says. “I think we must do everything possible to protect it.”

Complete list of Forbes immigrant billionaires in 2025

METHODOLOGY

Forbes defined immigrant billionaires as US citizens born abroad who currently live in the United States with an estimated net worth of more than one billion dollars as of July 7, 2025. The 46 non -citizens who live in the US living in the US are not included (for example: Andreas Halvorsen, Adam Neumann) and the 16 US citizens born abroad that live outside the country (for example: Len Blavatnik).