Agreed, et. Your first comment stands. Strange, though - the word got me thinking this is (almost) another of those constructions in which the root form is friendless - has anyone actually read a document using the verb to patriate? Repatriate, expatriate, surebutŪ...

and in the only online dictionary ref I saw (from an admittedly cursory look), guess which is one of the countries to recognise this word patriate as of useful service?!

http://www.infoplease.com/ipd/A0580359.html