emigrate
v.to leave your own country to live in another one. You usually do this for a long time or for good.
v.to leave one's own country to settle permanently in another. Transitive when used with a destination; intransitive when the destination is implied or not specified.
“Many people emigrate to find better jobs.”
“After finishing his degree, he decided to emigrate to Canada to start a new life.”
“The historical records show that thousands of families emigrated during the nineteenth century, driven by economic hardship and the promise of fertile land in the west.”
emigrate vs immigrate — Emigrate is the act of leaving a country; immigrate is the act of entering a new one.
“The main character is Kathleen, an Anglicised Australian actor whose father had emigrated from Slovenia.”
“He visited the Americas for the first time on assignment in 1933 and emigrated to the United States with his wife and child later that year.”
From Latin emigratus, perfect passive participle of emigro (“to move away, remove, depart from a place”), from ex- (“out of, from”) + migro (“to move, remove, depart”).
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.