 Others had sent their children to US schools, and once they found jobs and sponsors to help them with immigration requirements, they would apply for permanent residence for their parents.Others originally traveled to England or emigrated to the United States Virgin Islands, where they worked in oil refineries, to emigrate from there, most of them crossing Canada, to the United States.Canada sponsored cleanup programs in the Caribbean and also allowed a few hundred women from Grenada to enter the US as immigrants.