Palau Emigration and Immigration

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Palau Emigration and Immigration[edit | edit source]

"Emigration" means moving out of a country. "Immigration" means moving into a country.
Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups.

Immigration into Palau[edit | edit source]

Emigration From Palau[edit | edit source]

KNOMAD Statistics: Emigrants: 5,600. Top destination countries: the United States, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Vietnam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, the Philippines, Canada, Australia, Brazil [1]

Records of Palau Emigrants in Their Destination Nations[edit | edit source]

Dark thin font green pin Version 4.png One option is to look for records about the ancestor in the country of destination, the country they immigrated into. See links to immigration records for major destination countries below.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. "Palau", at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, https://www.knomad.org/data/migration/emigration?page=18, accessed 1 August 2021.