immigrating

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He spent time in the Middle East when his father was ambassador to Syria and Lebanon before immigrating to the San Francisco Bay Area with his family as a teenager.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

To Jose Arango, immigrating to America at 17, after growing up in “conservative, religious homophobic” Colombia, felt like a liberation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

After immigrating to the United States three years ago, Uncle Amin hadn’t passed the medical board exams needed to practice as a doctor.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai