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immigrate

verb as in enter a foreign area intending to live there

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Citizens of another seven countries were blocked from permanently immigrating to the U.S., or for applying for tourist or student visas.

Then on Thursday, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services said it would re-examine green cards issued to individuals who immigrated to the US from 19 countries.

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In 1941, they were released and headed to Cuba, where they lived for two years before immigrating to New York.

The immigrant experience holds special meaning to Rams defensive end Kobie Turner — his grandfather immigrated to the U.S. from Jamaica and his wife’s parents immigrated from Peru.

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Her parents ran a flower shop after immigrating from South Korea.

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