About 4,000 Haitians have immigrated to Brazil since the 2010 earthquake, often going first through Ecuador, a poorer country with lax visa policies.
Quakers had been immigrating to Long Island since the previous century to escape religious persecution in England; in the 1700s, "Shapequaw", north of the present hamlet of Chappaqua, was established.
He had wanted to immigrate to the West ever since he was in his early twenties, ever since America liberalized its immigration policies in 1965.
In addition to differences in exposure routes and pathways, immigration patterns (including the number of years since immigrating to the United States) may partly explain these differences.
Most have immigrated since 1995 because of warfare in their nation.
Ms. Hoyte-Steier, 51, has been an enthusiastic resident of New York ever since immigrating from the Dominican Republic at age 25.
Since immigrating to the United States in 1978, Mr. Blavatnik has become one of the world's richest men through his varied investments, primarily in the industrial sector.
Since immigrating to the United States (where his first concert took place at the White House) from the Soviet Union in 1987, he has recorded and performed music from Baroque to works by little-known 20th-century Russian composers.
At least one person has indeed been allowed to see them; Norberto Fuentes, a Cuban writer who has since immigrated to the United States, reviewed the material more than 20 years ago for his book "Hemingway in Cuba" (Lyle Stuart, 1984).
One of my patients, whom I'll call Elsa, had not seen a doctor since immigrating to the United States 15 years ago.
