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
The SVP has brushed aside such concerns, pointing out that its proposal includes quotas allowing for around 40,000 people to immigrate to the country each year.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
The pause takes effect starting Jan. 21, and will halt visa issuance to people looking to immigrate permanently, typically through marriage, family ties or work sponsorship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
Then, you’ll need to discuss what this will actually cost and what kind of visa you’ll need to immigrate.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 22, 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
Cruz drew critical acclaim with her previous novel “Dominicana,” a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and a coming-of-age story centered around a Dominican teenage bride who immigrates to New York.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2022
Now, the likelihood of a child or teenager who immigrates to the United States “seeing themselves on the page is higher because of my work than it was for me,” he said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2022
Imm′igrant, one who immigrates; Immigrā′tion, act of immigrating.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
“They immigrated here from Hong Kong in 1969 with one dream: to become business owners and to live that American dream and have a good life for their two kids. And they accomplished that tenfold.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 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
His family was living in the Woodside neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., where his parents had immigrated from Greece.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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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Yong-ho Kim started working in Radio Korea’s advertising department a month after immigrating to the United States in February 1990, two years before the unrest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
Yet, in the late 19th century, the number of Catholics immigrating to the U.S. surged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 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
Koreans began immigrating to Los Angeles in the early 1900s as Korea lost independence to Japan, with a formal subjugation in 1910.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 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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