emigration

emigration
The act of foreigners in leaving their former country for purposes of permanent residence in another country. The term is the correlative of immigration, denoting their coming into a country. That is, a person is an emigrant as to the country which he leaves, and he is an immigrant as to the country to which he comes. 3 Am J2d Aliens § 48.

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