Immigration Records Search
Immigrant Records at the National Archives | National Archives
Among the billions of historical records housed at the National Archives throughout the country, researchers can find information relating to immigrants from the late 1700s through the early 2000s. The National Archives preserves and makes available documents created by Federal agencies in the course of their daily business.
https://www.archives.gov/research/immigration
Immigration Records | National Archives
The National Archives has immigration records for arrivals to the United States from foreign ports between approximately 1820 and December 1982 (with gaps). The records are arranged by port or airport of arrival. Use Form NATF 81 or order online to obtain copies of inbound federal passenger arrival manifests for ships and airplanes, 1820-1959.
https://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/overview
Records | USCIS
Use our online FOIA system to request your own immigration record, another person’s immigration record, or non-A-File information such as policies, data, or communications. Electronic Reading Room Our Electronic Reading Room helps you search for information identified under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Genealogy
https://www.uscis.gov/records/records
Immigration Records • FamilySearch
Census Records collected by FamilySearch, usually digitized and online, are listed in the FamilySearch catalog. Enter the name of the country in the "Place Field" and click "Search". A list of record categories will be provided. Select "Emigration and immigration " or "Emigration and immigration - Indexes ". Category: Emigration and Immigration
https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Immigration_Records
US Immigration Passenger Arrival Records • FamilySearch
Use these search engines first to check for your ancestor in multiple databases for many ports all at once. FamilySearch Historical Records: Under "Restrict records by", click on "Type". Check the "Immigration and Naturalization" box. Ancestry.com Immigration and Travel Collections. ($) Findmypast Immigration and Travel Collections. ($)
https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/US_Immigration_Passenger_Arrival_Records
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Online Detainee Locator System cannot search for records of persons under the age of 18. Search by A-Number If you know the detainee's A-Number, ICE recommends you use the A-Number search. The A-Number must be exactly nine digits long. If the A-Number has fewer than nine digits, please add zeros at the beginning.
https://locator.ice.gov/odls/
Finding Arrival Records Online - National Park Service
This manifest archive has been expanded beyond the peak years at Ellis Island to include Port of New York passenger records from 1820 to 1957. This web site was developed and is maintained by the American Family Immigration History Center located on Ellis Island.
https://www.nps.gov/elis/learn/education/finding-arrival-records-online.htm
Castle Garden
Castlegarden.org is a free database developed and funded by The Battery Conservancy. It contains and makes available eleven million records of immigrants who arrived at the Port of New York from 1820 - 1892. Today more than 100 million Americans can trace their ancestry to this early period of immigration.
http://castlegarden.org/
Researching Individuals | USCIS
What records exist and how to find them depend entirely on when the immigrant arrived and if, when, or how they became a United States citizen. Arrival Records Close All Open All Arrived before 1924 Arrival before 1924 but arrival record cannot be found Arrival 1924 to ca. 1944 Arrival before August 1940 and not naturalized by August 1940
https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/our-history/history-office-and-library/research-guides/researching-individuals
One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse
This site contains tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications. Some of these tools fetch data from other websites but do so in more versatile ways than the search tools provided on those websites.
https://stevemorse.org/
Immigration Records - Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada holds immigration records, up to and including 1935 for arrivals at ocean and border ports. There are no comprehensive nominal lists of immigrants arriving in Canada before 1865. From 1865 onwards, passenger lists and border entry lists were the official record of immigration; no immigrant applications or files exist.
https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/Pages/introduction.aspx