immigration

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UK /ɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃn/ US /ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/

noun 2

Collocations

(noun.) coming to live in a country

ADJ

illegal | large-scale, mass

VERB + IMMIGRATION

control, restrict

The government decided to control immigration more strictly after the election.

IMMIGRATION + NOUN

control, law, policy, rules | authority, officer, official, service

PREP

~ from

Many families have relatives who came through immigration from Asia in recent decades.

immigration control

VERB + IMMIGRATION

go/pass through

After landing, all passengers had to pass through immigration before collecting their luggage.

IMMIGRATION + NOUN

checks, formalities, procedures

Travelers complained that the immigration formalities at the airport took over three hours.

Definitions

noun

The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence.

The Bohemians had come then, and after them the Poles. People said that old man Durham himself was responsible for these immigrations; he had sworn that he would fix the people of Packingtown so that they would never again call a strike on him, and so he had sent his agents into every city and village in Europe to spread the tale of the chances of work and high wages at the stockyards.

Another measure of the inadequacy of the Immigration and Nationality Act has been the huge volume of private immigration bills introduced in Congress. These are bills to deal with individual hardship cases for which the general law fails to provide. In the Eighty-seventh Congress over 3,500 such bills were introduced. Private immigration bills make up about half of our legislation today.

The process of going through immigration checks at a border checkpoint.

It took ages to get through immigration last time.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — migration into a place (especially migration to a country of

in-migration

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

The Bohemians had come then, and after them the Poles. People said that old man Durham himself was responsible for these immigrations; he had sworn that he would fix the people of Packingtown so that

Wiktionary

Another measure of the inadequacy of the Immigration and Nationality Act has been the huge volume of private immigration bills introduced in Congress. These are bills to deal with individual hardship

Wiktionary

[Stephen] Miller’s uncle, a neuroscientist, has been welcomed onto the public stage for his denunciations of his nephew’s immigration policies, which the elder Miller has characterized as hypocritical

Wiktionary

The German Chancellor is plagued by immigration problems.

Tatoeba · #38969

This is the central problem of postwar immigration.

Tatoeba · #56175

This study compares the immigration policies of various nations.

Tatoeba · #59412

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