Are you walking, driving, or flying?
HOW long as you want because when u need to go to Ellis island you could take any boat that takes you to Ellis island.
Ellis Island has no aviation facilities.
most people say it took up to 3 to 5 weeks. [from Europe to Ellis Island]
Traveling from Beach, North Dakota to Fargo, North Dakota on I-94, it takes 5 hours to drive across North Dakota according to MapQuest.
about a month
South Dakota is further north than North Carolina.
2-3 weeks
All passengers who came to America from 1855 to 1890 had to go through Ellis Island. Passengers were inspected for contagious disease.
Immigrants had to go to Ellis Island because they had to take a test, check if their sick, and get the papers this usually took a really long time.
Flights from Fargo, North Dakota to Rome, Italy, will take about 14 hours.
It takes nine hours to fly from North Dakota to Brussels.
North Dakota is about 340 miles long (east to west).