Ni hao 木叶丸, to emigrate: to leave a country permanently and go to live in another one . Millions of Germans emigrated from Europe to America in the nineteenth century. to immigrate: to come to a different country in order to live there permanently. He immigrated with his parents when he was a child and grew up in France. Immigration include also animal and plant life ,you could say : " Only few plants can immigrate to the island" ,meaning migrating to a new environment . So the difference is basically : He immigrated to --------- . He emigrated from ---- to -----. He who emigrates also immigrates. As he leaves his country of origin, he emigrates from his homeland, in order to immigrate to another country. Leaving his old country, he is an emigrant, but arriving in his new country, he is an immigrant. I hope the difference is clear now:)

To emigrate or immigrate is to enter a new country to take up residency; the only real difference between these words is you emigrate from your country to another country and you immigrate into (or to) another country.

hello, cherry's answer is ok except for what she says about plants: plants doesn't migrate (in or out) but disperse or spread- animals migrate only when follow some pattern, like seasonal birds, herds in extreme climates, etc. shorter for humans: you leave your country as and emigrant and enter the target country as an inmigrant. (temporally or definitivelly).that's all.