immigrate
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“While foreigners who wish to immigrate lawfully must sometimes wait for many years, a child born here to a birth tourist is automatically a citizen,” Alito wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
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
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
I never felt like the camp was home, but I began to get used to the life there as we waited to see which country might allow us to immigrate.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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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
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 Fernald, James Champlin
Ms. Crabapple’s great-grandfather, Samuel Rothbort, was a Russian-born Bundist who, after tangling with local thugs, immigrated to the U.S. and became a painter and chicken farmer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
They had immigrated to become Americans—that was the whole point.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Henry Roth was born in a Galician shtetl in what is now Ukraine, and immigrated to the U.S. as an infant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Herdman found success in part by making the recruitment of dual nationals a priority, starting four of them — including Alphonso Davies, who immigrated to Canada from a refugee camp in Ghana — in Qatar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
Since the nineteenth century, millions of Germans had immigrated to the continent, and many maintained strong ties to their fatherland.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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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
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
Large numbers of deportations are one factor, he said, but besides that, some will decide against immigrating to the U.S., while others already in the country will choose to leave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026
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
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
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