Hello Allan, Your question begins saying the person came to the US in 1948 "for a visit." This may be the factor determining the answer. US visas (as documents) date from 1924 and include both immigra

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Hello Alan, The passport application also says Henry Zucker was naturalized in the US District Court in Brooklyn (Eastern District) on July 24, 1902. I found that record at Ancestry here, in which he

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If they arrived (but with no immigrant arrival record*) in the 1940’s they might be eligible for Registry/Lawful Entry proceedings after 1965 or 1986. Let me explain. This question highlights how Regi

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Hi Judy, Let me try to reply to your questions: 1) Is there likely to be any correspondence about this case? There was correspondence in 1906 because the file is indexed in an index to correspondence.

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No, the purpose of creating records under the Registry Act of 1929 was to belatedly create an arrival record so it could be used as the basis of a certificate of arrival. The ability to issue a certif

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Hello Deborah, I'm assuming you mean a USCIS "AA" Certificate file for Jon, since he was born abroad to US citizen parents. No, no file or record of his derivative citizenship would be created upon hi

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Hi Jenny, They do exist today, the only question is exactly where they are filed. The visas came to the US with the immigrants in 1925. They were taken up by the Immigrant Inspector at the port of ent

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Hi Robert, You asked Might I find other papers? I'm guessing you mean might there be additional records in the C-files for the 1921 or earlier naturalizations, for which you already have the court rec

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Hi Elaine, How fortunate you found that scrap of paper in Izaak's court naturalization records. Assuming all three children were later issued Certificates of Derivative Citizenship, they would all hav

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Hi Nancy, First, it is US Citizenship and Immigration Services (not Customs). Second, are C-files likely to have anything interesting in them? The problem is, as always, it depends on the date and the

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Correct, you can request the C-file from USCIS using the C-number. That file will contain the duplicate petition for naturalization, as well as all other paperwork and forms related to the naturalizat

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Hi Jeremy, Your Noodle case is quite a puzzle. All I can tell you is the identifying information (like name) on the US manifest in 1935 had to match their travel documents. To enter the US in 1935 the

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Hi Daniela, I found them in the National Archives online Catalog https://catalog.archives.gov, which is a little different than the National Archives website itself. At the catalog I searched initiall

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Okay I don't know why I didn't find this when I looked before, but it would appear the records are at NARA in DC, included within RG 21. From their catalog (ONLY items that would cover 1922): NAID 769

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Sally is right that there's no one answer for all times and places. It appears the Supreme Court of DC was like a "county court" in Washington DC for some time, including 1922. A cursory search did no

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Hello Alex, Another poster makes a good point, this immigrant family may have come to the US via Canada, a popular option for people traveling from Britain/Northern Europe/the Baltic in the 1880s and

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I wasn't able to view the attachment, but assume you are talking about an arrival at New York on the Rjindam Aug 20 1906. Chane is going to her husband, and Sima is going to the same person. Sima is g

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Hello Judith, Those numbers in the Cause of Death column on Customs Lists have long been a source of confusion. They are annotations made later by gov't statistical clerks when "coding" the documents

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RR is for "railroad." In this case, a woman and her daughter traveling alone, it probably means they were released to the custody of the railroad for delivery to the waiting relative. In some such cas

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Mort makes an important point about the opportunity for errors during transcription. I would only add that there were multiple opportunities for such errors and that might make the problem worse in so

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