immigrate
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Back in Maine, Abdi said his brother Hassan, who couldn't immigrate to the US because of visa restrictions, instead recently became a citizen of Canada.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
In 1932, the rise of Nazism compelled him to immigrate to the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
But lawyers told Barron’s that most of their wealthy foreign clients who want to immigrate aren’t applying for the Gold Card—they’re pursuing other options.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
“But if I’m a family of four and I want to immigrate to the U.S., that’s $4 million, so that gets a little pricey,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 7, 2025
The American president, J « Harry Truman, had petitioned Congress to allow tens of thousands of concentration camp survivors to immigrate to the United States.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
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A Central or South American who immigrates to the U.S. could see their greenhouse gas emissions double or triple, just by becoming part of the U.S. economy.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 25, 2023
After 11-year-old Nora immigrates from Korea to Canada, Hae-sung finds her on Facebook 12 years later.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2023
Directed by Danish filmmaker Bille August, who also worked on the screenplay, it starred Max von Sydow as an out-of-work Swede who immigrates to Denmark with his son, in search of a better life.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2020
Her history is a hard one — she immigrates to New York from rural China penniless and pregnant, then works her way up to a job at an exploitative nail salon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2017
A person emigrates from the land he leaves, and immigrates to the land where he takes up his abode.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
One academic who immigrated to the United States said junk mail from the retailer helped convince her that she’d really become an American.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
Aikebaer immigrated to Southern California from China nearly 20 years ago, according to Nijiati, and has participated in several business ventures including flipping houses and opening a fast-food restaurant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Her parents immigrated from Iraq and Indonesia, met in Alabama, and settled in Orlando, Fla. Her father drove a truck while her mother mostly worked restaurant jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Nine of the 11 starters in France’s win over Morocco either immigrated to France or are the children of immigrants from Madagascar, Lebanon, French Guiana and Cameroon, Guinea-Bissau and elsewhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Most of them were young, the sons and daughters of the first wave of Puerto Ricans who immigrated to El Barrio in the late forties and the fifties.
From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez
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It was trying to unravel years of sacrifice that the couple had made since immigrating to the United States from El Salvador.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
After immigrating to America, my dad was so grateful to be American he enlisted in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
The family changed their last name after immigrating to the U.S. in 1933.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
Citizens of another seven countries were blocked from permanently immigrating to the U.S., or for applying for tourist or student visas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
My first poem was titled “The American Dream,” a tale of a woman immigrating to this country—“the land of unlimited opportunity”—and barely being able to feed her family.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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