Difference between "emigrate" and "immigrate"
I checked my dictionary for this two verbs as below:

"emigrate"- If you emigrate, you leave your own country to live in another country.
"immigrate"-If someone immigrates to a particular country, they come to live or work in that country, after leaving the country where they were born.

that means: "emigrate" is to move abroad saying from the stand of your own country, and "immigrate" is to come into a new country and change residency saying from the stand of that new country to live.

Is my understanding right? Thanks a lot!

Question

Difference between "emigrate" and "immigrate"
I checked my dictionary for this two verbs as below:

"emigrate"- If you emigrate, you leave your own country to live in another country.
"immigrate"-If someone immigrates to a particular country, they come to live or work in that country, after leaving the country where they were born.

that means: "emigrate" is to move abroad saying from the stand of your own country, and "immigrate" is to come into a new country and change residency saying from the stand of that new country to live.

Is my understanding right? Thanks a lot!

Answer

Yes, your understanding is right.

"emigrate" = to leave one's country to live in another
"immigrate" = to come to a country to live there.

For example, if you moved to Canada you could say:

I emigrated from China.
I immigrated to Canada.

Answer

Yes, that's right.  You "emigrate from" and "immigrate to".

A very simple way of remembering it is to chop up the words and find the prefixes.

emigrate = ex-migrate
immigrate = in-migrate

Answer

"emigrate" to move to other country permanently.
"immigrate" to move to other country for job or study etc.

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