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!