National Archives at San Francisco. AAPHM. 2012

[baksha]

In celebration of Asian American Pacific Heritage month, a sampling of Asian American immigration documents that are found at the National Archives at San Francisco located in San Bruno, CA. :

A red Marriage certificate (paper) found in a immigration case file for a native born Chinese American bringing in his Chinese born wife, dated 1909 ; Picture Bride for a Japanese immigrant.

sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/7179294-san-bruno-facility-to-house-asian-american-immigration-documents/

Part 2, sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/7199268-historic-asian-american-documents-find-home/

[baksha]

Hi All,
Below is an article on the newly transferred Alien Files (approimately 43,000) that were received at the National Archives at San Francisco and National Archives at Kansas City for those immigrants from every country with birthdates 100 years ago. These are 20th century immigration and naturalization documents and a treasure trove of each immigrant who entered the U.S. and later had other dealings with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service from every country as Naturalized U.S. citizens, were investigated during the "confession & amnesty" era , were reunified with family, and /or were deported. Many of files contained Angel Island Immigration Station or other initial entry port interrogation interviews conducted from 1910-1953. Search the National Archives site at www.archives.gov. Use key words : Alien Files and individual's name on one line. Check periodically as records (500,000) are being transferred from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service. The A-Files for Chinese are rich in textural records for those pre1965 in that they were created to administer the Chinese exclusion act (1882-1943) to restrict entry to chinese laborers.

USCIS: A-Files for younger than 100 year old individuals will need to request through www.uscis.gov.

good luck. Back in 1993, I received my parents' A-Files and they contained over 100 pages with photos.

blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2012/06/nara_genealogy_a_files_museum.php