immigration

IPA: ɪmʌgrˈeɪʃʌn

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 process of going through immigration checks at a border checkpoint.

Examples of "immigration" in Sentences

Discuss the shift in immigration from the 1980s to the present.
Can't wait to chat with the Russian immigration guys. desidyke US #immigration is (illegally) 6 months late on my Green Card.
What really needs to happen in immigration is for the U.S. to hold Mexico to the fire in doing a better job of taking care of their poor.
Plus, anti-immigrant pages on Facebook "owned" the term immigration, meaning searches using that word tended to lead to anti-immigration content.
Thus, Archbishop Gomez explained, Catholic interest in immigration is not a recent development but “part of our religious identity as Catholics, as Christians.”
Glenn Hamer , president of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce, said that in contrast to previous years, "the word immigration did not come up" during a recent annual legislative forecast luncheon with top state elected officials.