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Rule "confusion of emigrate and immigrate"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: confusion of emigrate and immigrate
Message: The verb "emigrate" describes moving away from a place, and "immigrate" describes moving to a place. Did you mean "\1 from" or "\1 to"?
Category: Commonly Confused Words (ID: CONFUSED_WORDS)
Link: https://languagetool.org/insights/post/word-choice-immigrate-emigrate-migrate/
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • We will immigrate from Poland.
    Correction suggestion: emigrate from, immigrate to
  • Yani immigrated from Algeria.
    Correction suggestion: emigrated from, immigrated to
  • Later, Motahari immigrates from Isfahan because of hot climate of Qom
    Correction suggestion: emigrates from, immigrates to
  • Other areas were populated by lync immigrating from France.
    Correction suggestion: emigrating from, immigrating to
ID: EMIGRATE_IMMIGRATE_CONFUSION [2]
Version: 6.8-SNAPSHOT (2025-10-29 22:33:07 +0100)