<verb.change> only few plants can immigrate to the island
introduce or send as immigrants
<verb.change> Britain immigrated many colonists to America
come into a new country and change residency
<verb.change> Many people immigrated at the beginning of the 20th century
Immigrate \Im"mi*grate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Immigrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Immigrating}.] [L. immigrare, immigratum, to immigrate; pref. im- in + migrare to migrate. See {Migrate}.] To come into a country of which one is not a native, for the purpose of permanent residence. See {Emigrate}.
Israeli officials expect a total of some 150,000 Soviet Jews to immigrate by the end of the year.
Thousands of Eastern European and Soviet citizens have applied to South African embassies in Western Europe for permission to immigrate.
"I believe it's not terribly important for Israel," said Peres. "But it's very meaningful to American Jewry." But Likud legislator Ehud Olmert said American Jews wanting to affect policy should immigrate.
It has long been official government policy that ethnic Germans have a right to immigrate to West Germany.
After debate that pitted Orthodox against more liberal Jews, Parliament narrowly defeated legislation that would hve restricted the definition of a Jew and thus limited who could immigrate to Israel.
He said more than 200,000 have arrived over the past two years and that 1 million more already have Israeli invitations to immigrate.
President Fidel Castro also said there will be no limit on the number of foreign nuns allowed to immigrate.