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The USCIS Genealogy Program is a fee-for-service program that provides researchers with timely access to historical immigration and naturalization records of deceased immigrants. 

Link to Do You Have a File? - Here you will find all necessary information to identify file numbers and whether they are valid or not for a Record Request.Link to Request Name Index Search - Our unique Master Index system is a combination of index tools¿partially automated and partially manual¿that work together to identify and locate old agency files and records. Link to Request File by Number - The USCIS Genealogy Program is authorized to make five (5) series of the agency's historical records available to requesters. Other agency records may be available from the USCIS Freedom of Information (FOIA) Program, or may have transferred to the National Archives.Link to Receive Copies of Records of Files - Here you will find examples of what the Record Files look like.

    How does the process work?          

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This page may also be found at:
www.uscis.gov/genealogy



Last updated: 01/15/2013

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