immigration records
Border crossing logs
Immigration records are official documents tracking the movement of people into a country.
They include passenger manifests, naturalization papers, visa applications, and border crossing logs.
Genealogists use historical immigration records to trace ancestry: I found my great-grandfather's ship manifest at Ellis Island.
Government agencies maintain such records for legal and security purposes.
- green cardU.S. residency document
- permanent residentOne who stays indefinitely
- legal statusOne's position in law
- marriage licensesDocuments authorizing legal unions
- visaTravel authorization stamp
passport · ship manifests · Ellis Island · work permit · passenger lists · consulate · embassy · border patrol · historical archives · Department of Homeland Security · port of entry · port of call · naturalization papers · parish registers · family history · lineage · population census · ancestry
- Welsh Diasporaancestry, genealogy, heritage groups, male voice choirs, Eisteddfod
- documentsdocument, news, email, report, letter
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
- heritagecultural traditions, museum, national heritage, archive, monument
- historical recordsdiary, census record, annual reviews, letter, census data
- history resourceschronicles, archives, timelines, documentaries, narratives
immigration recordsbirth certificates
Documents proving nativity
death certificates · marriage certificates · census records · marriage records