Throughout its history, millions of immigrants have landed at America’s shores. Their practical contributions are still felt in every field of endeavor including agriculture, industry, and the service trades, but within the great immigrant migration to America there also came gutsy and talented individualists, artists, and dreamers. Many of these exceptional talents have gone on to win worldly renown, and their names have lived on in history.

Ellis Island’s Famous Immigrants tells the story of some of the best known of these legendary characters and records their actual immigration experience at Ellis Island. Celebrities featured within Ellis Island’s records include such entrepreneurs as Max Factor, Charles Atlas, and Etorre Boiardi; painters Arshile Gorky and Joseph Stella; authors Isaac Asimov and Ludwig Bemelmans; spiritual figures Father Flanagan and Krishnamurti; Hollywood actors Claudette Colbert, Rudolph Valentino, and Bob Hope; sports figures Knute Rockne and Johnny Weissmuller; and Supreme Court jurist Felix Frankfurter.

You do not always have to be an artist or a dreamer to make a contribution to our American culture. Abraham Zapruder was simply at the right place and at the right time to make one of the most historical contributions to our society in the twentieth century.

Zapruder, born in Ukraine, immigrated with his family to the United States in 1920 settling in Brooklyn, New York. In 1941, following a job offer by a friend, Zapruder moved to Dallas to work for Nardis, a local sportswear company. He was a supporter of the Democratic Party and an admirer of President John F. Kennedy. When he learned that Kennedy’s motorcade would pass through Dealey Plaza, he filmed the procession with one of the latest Bell and Howell 8mm cameras. His film captured the assassination of the President and has become one of the most studied pieces of film in history. The film became an essential part of the Warren Commission Hearings.

The United States no longer processes immigrants through Ellis Island. The immigration laws have changed through the years, and it is much harder to immigrate to America today than it was in the days of the famous Ellis Island immigrants mentioned in this story.

Whether you live in Dallas, or outside the United States wanting to live in Dallas, you may be interested in immigrating to America to be a citizen or in becoming a permanent resident. Who knows, maybe you, your relative, or someone you know who wants to be a legal resident in the United States may make the next significant historical contribution to American society just like Abraham Zapruder.

If you are having a difficult time understanding our complicated immigration laws, you need legal counsel. Make this the right time and the right place in history by contacting us right now at www.immigrationlawstation.com, and we will help you find an immigration lawyer in your area who will answer any legal questions you may have about immigration law.

Throughout its history, millions of immigrants have landed at America’s shores. Their practical contributions are still felt in every field of endeavor including agriculture, industry, and the service trades, but within the great immigrant migration to America there also came gutsy and talented individualists, artists, and dreamers. Many of these exceptional talents have gone on to win worldly renown, and their names have lived on in history.

Ellis Island’s Famous Immigrants tells the story of some of the best known of these legendary characters and records their actual immigration experience at Ellis Island. Celebrities featured within Ellis Island’s records include such entrepreneurs as Max Factor, Charles Atlas, and Etorre Boiardi; painters Arshile Gorky and Joseph Stella; authors Isaac Asimov and Ludwig Bemelmans; spiritual figures Father Flanagan and Krishnamurti; Hollywood actors Claudette Colbert, Rudolph Valentino, and Bob Hope; sports figures Knute Rockne and Johnny Weissmuller; and Supreme Court jurist Felix Frankfurter. The United States no longer processes immigrants through Ellis Island, but there probably has never been a more famous immigrant to come to the United States than Arnold Schwarzeneggar.

Arnold Schwarzeneggar was born in a small village of Austria in 1947 where his father was the local chief of police. Raised in a strict Roman Catholic household, it is common public knowledge that Schwarzeneggar never got along with his father or older brother. Seeking a better life for himself, he took to body building where he quickly excelled at an early age being the youngest ever to win Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia bodybuilding titles. To this day, he has remained a prominent face in the bodybuilding sport long after his retirement, and has written several books and numerous articles on the sport. After winning the Mr. Universe contest for the first time, he immigrated to the United States where he eventually won four more Mr. Universe and seven Mr. Olympia titles. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1983.

After one of the most storied bodybuilding careers ever, Schwarzeneggar moved on to realize his life long ambition of starring in the movies where he has been the lead role in over thirty. Probably his most famous roles have been in the “Terminator” movies. For a couple of his movie roles, he was nominated twice to receive awards from the Golden Globes, but never won.

After his movie career, Arnold chose to enter the political arena. Choosing to be an active Republican ever since he was naturalized a citizen, Schwarzeneggar came to public light politically in the late 1980’s. In 2003, he ran for California Governor in a special recall election winning handily, and was re-elected in 2006 where he remains Governor to this day. Along the way during these three successful careers, Arnold put himself through college via correspondence, learned English, and entered into many successful business relationships making himself a millionaire by age 30, long before his Hollywood career.

Since the Ellis Island years, the immigration laws have changed, and it is much harder to immigrate to America today than it was in the days of the famous Ellis Island immigrants mentioned in this story. Whether you live in Sacramento, San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange County, or any of their surrounding areas in California, you may be interested in becoming a permanent resident, or becoming one of its citizens. You may also be outside the United States and in a place where you know someone who has had a difficult time immigrating to the United States, becoming a permanent resident, or a citizen. If you or your acquaintances do not understand our immigration laws, you should probably seek legal counsel. Contact us at www.immigrationlawstation.com, and we will help you find an immigration attorney in your area who will answer any legal questions you may have about immigration law.

America is known as the land of opportunity. Arnold Schwarzeneggar new that fact about America and seized his opportunity. Who knows, maybe you, your relative, or someone you know who wants to be a legal resident in the United States will get the opportunity to immigrate just like Arnold Schwarzeneggar. So, seize the opportunity and contact us today!

Throughout its history, millions of immigrants have landed at America’s shores. Their practical contributions are still felt in every field of endeavor including agriculture, industry, and the service trades, but within the great immigrant migration to America there also came gutsy and talented individualists, artists, and dreamers.

Many of these exceptional talents have gone on to win worldly renown, and their names have lived on in history. Ellis Island’s Famous Immigrants tells the story of some of the best known of these legendary characters and records their actual immigration experience at Ellis Island. Celebrities featured within Ellis Island’s records include such entrepreneurs as Max Factor, Charles Atlas, and Etorre Boiardi; painters Arshile Gorky and Joseph Stella; authors Isaac Asimov and Ludwig Bemelmans; spiritual figures Father Flanagan and Krishnamurti; Hollywood actors Claudette Colbert, Rudolph Valentino, and Bob Hope; sports figures Knute Rockne and Johnny Weissmuller; and Supreme Court jurist Felix Frankfurter.

Probably the most famous immigrant to land in the city of Houston, Texas is Hakeem Olajuwon, born in Nigeria in 1963. Some consider him to be the most famous continental African to have played in any sport in America. He came to America to play basketball for Guy Lewis at the University of Houston where he led the Cougars to three NCAA final four appearances and won the NCAA Tournament Player of the Year award.

In 1984, the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association drafted Olajuwon, and he developed into one of the dominant big men in the league. Nicknamed “The Dream,” given to him because he referred to the footwork and moves he acquired as a young soccer player as the Dream Shake, he used the moves to confound his defenders while playing post.

Olajuwon led the Rockets to the NBA championship in 1994 and 1995, and was voted the league’s most valuable player for the 1993-94 season. During the 1990s, sportswriters and fans considered him one of the NBA’s best centers. Olajuwon retired in 2002 after signing with the Toronto Raptors the previous year. Olajuwon still lives in Houston today where he he has had great success in the real estate market and runs a basketball camp for big men. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008. “The Dream” became an American citizen in 1993.

The United States no longer processes immigrants through Ellis Island. The immigration laws have changed through the years, and it is much harder to immigrate to America today than it was in the days of the famous Ellis Island immigrants mentioned in this story.

Whether you live in Houston, Texas, its surrounding area, or outside the United States, you may be interested in immigrating to America, becoming a permanent resident, or becoming one of its citizens. You may also be in a place where you know someone who has had a difficult time immigrating to the United States, becoming a permanent resident, or a citizen.

If you or your acquaintances do not understand our immigration laws, you should probably seek legal counsel. Even if you already live here and just want to become a permanent resident or citizen, or have a relative that wants to become a permanent resident or citizen of the United States, contact us at www.immigrationlawstation.com, and we will help you find an immigration lawyer in your area who will answer any legal questions you may have about immigration law.

Who knows, maybe you, your relative, or someone you know who wants to be a legal resident in the United States will be like Hakeem Olajuwon.