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[Morlark]

I just got a migration in my current game. The game automatically paused, and without unpausing it I then drafted the first migrant, since he was a marksdwarf. I then unpaused the game, and the marksdwarf refused to move. The other dwarves that made up the migration wave did not appear. I then paused, undrafted the dwarf, and unpaused. The dwarf began moving towards the meeting hall, and the other dwarves in the wave appeared as normal. After the dwarf had moved off his starting square I was able to draft him again without problems. Unfortunately I didn't think to make a save while the wave was "stuck".

[Torak]

It's because military cannot be commanded when they're in the "New migrant" mode.

[chrominance]

This has happened to me in previous versions whenever I got a soldier as a migrant (which occurred exactly one time since 32a), but not recently and not when drafting a dwarf. It might occur if you're drafting migrants as soon as they appear on the map, i.e. at one of the edge tiles. The easy way to solve this without undrafting someone is, I'm pretty sure, to go into the Military screen and take the squad containing the migrant off duty. The migrant soldier should then move, allowing the rest of the migrants to spawn.

[randomjgj]

Setting them to off duty should work.  Or giving them a patrol point somewhere in your fortress.

[MyBeardIsOnFire]

This also happens when you don't have a meeting area. The idling dwarves don't leave the spot on the edge and block other immigrants.