Where did they initially immigrate to? Do you know how they picked that particular place?
My dad immigrated to Toronto from Korea in 1975. His older brother (my uncle) left Korea, lived in Denmark before being "allowed" into Canada. Once he settled in Toronto, he sponsored my dad.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
My dad's eldest sister (my keun gomo!) came here in the 70s after my cousin's father moved back home following his station in Korea. He passed a couple years later, but my aunt stayed because she wanted it to be easier for my cousin (half black/half korean) to grow up in the states/detroit rather than in korea like an outcast...
She sponsored her brothers/sister to come here (with the exception of 1 aunt who stayed in Korea)... and it was in 1990 that we all came to Michigan (so my mom and my brother and I were all part of my dad's sponsorship).
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
I don't know how my parents ended up in Hawaii exactly....
My mom fled Vietnam because of the war. She went to an internment camp (I think?) in the Philippines. From there she went to LA and then Hawaii. She was there alone and then somehow got the rest of the family to join her a few years later.
My dad's family moved from China to Hong Kong to Hawaii.
persimmon / 1465 posts
My mum is! She didn't choose where she went though as she came out when she married my dad!
grapefruit / 4049 posts
My mom and dad immigrated to the US from the Philippines in the late 60's. They went to Los Angeles and settled down there. I think my dad liked the weather and he had a few friends there already too. Extended family followed suit and to this day, pretty much my entire family is still there.
pomegranate / 3716 posts
Both of my parents immigrated to Chicago (separately) in the early 70s and met and got married there.
pear / 1554 posts
My mom is from Japan. She moved to the US in the 70's. DH's parents came to the States from Germany in the 60's.
clementine / 994 posts
Both my parents immigrated to California (Bay Area) from the Philippines separately in the late 70's. My grandfather was sponsored to come here as a minister and came here first. They sponsored him specifically to start a church in this area, so that's how he ended up here. A few years later he sponsored his family (my grandma, mom and her siblings) to come over.
My dad was sponsored by his elderly aunt. I don't remember why it was just him, but he's the only one of his family who came.
My parents met and married here.
pomegranate / 3503 posts
Parents came here when I was 1. Then they sponsored many of our extended family over.
GOLD / wonderful pomegranate / 28905 posts
I'm a immigrant! Came here from China when I was 3 with the WHOLE family. Like aunts, cousins etc. The whole dang family.
The men came first to find jobs and apartments. Then we followed shortly thereafter.
honeydew / 7968 posts
Parents came from Korea in the 70s on a nursing visa. They went to ny cuz my uncle was there.
coconut / 8234 posts
My dad came here when he was about 17 with his mom, dad, and 9 brothers and sisters (he's the youngest) from Guyana, South America. He finally became a citizen when he turned 50.
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
Yep! Parents came to America in 1980 with a 5 yr old, 3 yr old and 4 month old!
They're amazing.
blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts
My parents had a quickie wedding in Korea and came over on my dad's student visa. My mom had just finished nursing school and was about to leave for Germany for a nursing job with many of her classmates. One of her friends cancelled her plans for Germany because her boyfriend married her and was able to take her to America on his student visa. My dad was about to leave for America with a student visa as well, so he said "let's do that!" My mom was shocked because they weren't even DATING at the time. Literally. My mom was taking care of his mom's injured arm. HER mom convinced her to do it because she liked my dad so much. So they got married really fast and came over here in the mid 70s. They've only been back twice in almost 40 years.
A few of my dad's family was already here, and bit by bit my mom's family all came over.
blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts
@MsMamaBear: haha thanks! I actually didn't know this story at all until just a couple of years ago!
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
@mrs. wagon: Dang. Amazing! 
It's like an arranged marriage, but not arranged. HAHA
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
My parents didn't immigrate here. My husband's grandparents immigrated here from Lithuania right before his dad was born.
blogger / watermelon / 14218 posts
@chopsuey119: haha seriously. I love the story because it's SO my parents. My dad suggests something completely ridiculous, my mom immediately shuts him down, and then it happens anyway. Hehe.
hostess / wonderful apple seed / 16729 posts
Similar to Andrea's mom, but after the Philippines like around 1975, my dad went to the east coast. I believe he was sponsored by a couple in my hometown. Eight years later, my mom followed my dad. My dad had gotten a job and a house and he sponsored my mom and my sister over here.
@Andrea: Oh, man. That would have been so cool to end up in Hawaii!
eggplant / 11287 posts
My parents aren't immigrants, but my grandma came to Canada from Portugal in the 1940's. She ended up in Calgary, Alberta.
I am an American though, because she ended up having my dad in California and when he got married, he and and my mom moved to the states.
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
@bluestriped bee: i guess i lucked out with that one!
grapefruit / 4400 posts
My parents fled Vietnam after the fall of Saigon. They ended up in a refugee camp in Guam (I think?), then were sponsored by an American in the CIA my dad worked with to the suburbs outside of DC.
My parents divorced when I was 3 and my mom moved to SoCal to be near Little Saigon. My dad still lives in Northern VA.
cantaloupe / 6687 posts
I'm an immigrant...my family came to Seattle from Korea when I was almost 2.
grapefruit / 4554 posts
My mom and dad both immigrated from Hong Kong in the 70's. My dad's first stop was FL and made his way up to Boston where he meet my mom.
cherry / 108 posts
Such awesome stories on here... my family came to the US many generations ago, but my FIL came to Seattle from Belgium in the mid-1960's to work for Boeing. On one of his trips back to Belgium, he proposed to my husband's mom (who was also Belgian -- a Belgian beauty queen, in fact!), and she came back with him to the US in 1969. My husband was born in Seattle, and then they all went back to Belgium in the mid-1970's when my FIL was laid off from Boeing during those tough times... but then he was rehired by Boeing a year later, became a US citizen and continues to work at Boeing to this day. DH's mom passed away many years ago, though she never did become a citizen. She was a monarchist to the end!
pineapple / 12793 posts
My grandparent immigrated to the states, then had my dad in south America and came back to the U.S. when he was little so he's an immigrant, and I immigrated to Canada when I married DH.
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