Understanding Immigration Terms

Someone who is forced to leave a country for religious or political reasons.

Someone who leaves one country to settle permanently in another country.

The process that allows someone from another country to become a citizen

Member of a community with rights and responsibilities.

Qualified, meeting requirements.

Safety; protection from danger.

A term used to refer to immigrants living in the US without lawful permission.

Someone who illegally entered the US as a child.

A travel document issued by the country a person is traveling to that grants entry to that country.

An immigrant with permission to live and work in the United States.