immigration

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 13.46 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. 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.
2. noun The process of going through immigration checks at a border checkpoint.

   It took ages to get through immigration last time.

Similar words

in-migration immigrant emigration emigrant migration settler migratory migrate emigrate settlement

Often followed by

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Word family

immigrant immigrants immigrate immigrated immigrates immigrating immigrational immigrations