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1. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Finding Aids
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List description: Review the finding aids and guides to explore the library's collection.
2. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Artifact Collection
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List description: A selection of items from the archival collection.
3. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Poster Collection
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List description: A collection of posters created by USCIS and INS to highlight programs, services, awards and notable immigrants.
4. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Annual report 1892-1986 [electronic resource]
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List description: This is the annual report of the Immigration Service, later Immigration Bureau and finally 1933-1986, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). From 1913-1932 the Naturalization Bureau had its own annual report. From 1978- , immigration statistics are found in the Statistical Yearbook later called Yearbook of Immigration Statistics.
5. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Annual report of the Commissioner of Naturalization 1913-1932 [electronic resource]
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List description: From 1913-1932 Naturalization was a separate bureau in the Department of Labor. From 1906-1912, its annual report was in the Bureau of Immigration. In 1933 the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was created combining the two bureaus again.
6. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Commissioner's Communique
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List description: Started in 1974 and published by the Central Office of INS. Material in this newsletter came from the Commissioner’s Office and kept employees up to date on what the Commissioner was doing. It was not published in 2000.
7. Copy LinkCollapse for less details I&N Reporter
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List description: Started in 1952, the publication was to “supplement and advance that part of the work concerned with aliens seeking to become citizens of our beloved country.” It featured articles about immigration, citizenship, recent court decisions and statistics. The
8. Copy LinkCollapse for less details INS Information Bulletin
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List description: Started in July 1951, it was a weekly publication delivered to employees for the intent of keeping them better informed of developments in all parts of the service.
9. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Monthly review
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List description: Started in 1943, the purpose of this periodical was to “assist petitioners for naturalization, and to inform employees of the Service and other interested persons of its activities.” It also served as “a current record of policies and practices adopted to
10. Copy LinkCollapse for less details 1934 INS Lecture series [electronic resource]
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11. Copy LinkCollapse for less details 1943 INS Lecture series [electronic resource]
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List description: Series of lectures given on the Immigration and Naturalization Service describing its mission and functions when it was transferred from the Dept. of Labor to the Dept. of Justice.
12. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Naturalization laws and regulations [electronic resource].
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13. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Naturalization Laws and Regulations, 1906 to 1942
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14. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Immigration laws, rules and regulations, 1893-1943
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15. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Yearbook of Immigration Statistics 1978-1995 [electronic resource]
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16. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Dillingham Commission (1907)
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List description: Immigration commissions. (1907-1910) U.S. Immigration Commission (Dillingham).
17. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Hesburgh Commission (1979)
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List description: Immigration commissions. (1979-1981) Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy (Hesburgh).
18. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Jordan Commission (1990)
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List description: Immigration commissions. (1990-1997) Commission on Immigration Reform (Jordan).
19. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Books for Children
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List description: List of juvenile literature in the USCIS library on immigration and children's experience of immigration.
20. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Braceros Bibliography
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List description: List of records on the Bracero guest worker program in the 1940s.
21. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Congressional Affairs
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22. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Constitution and Citizenship
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List description: Included are works describing the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights and their histories. Also included are essays and books on the meaning of citizenship.
23. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Immigration History
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24. Copy LinkCollapse for less details World War II INS Information Bulletins
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List description: Information bulletins issued by the INS from 1941 to 1943 about various new immigration policies related to the war.
25. Copy LinkCollapse for less details World War II INS documents
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List description: Includes various bulletins and circulars, Alien Registration and the Administrative History of INS during World War II
26. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Photographs of Mariel Cuban Refugees
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List description: This a sample set of Mariel Cuban refugees found in the photograph albums of the USCIS History Library. These photos show the processing of Cubans at the Elgin Airforce base in 1980 by the legacy agency Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Cont
27. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Marian Smith Bibliography
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28. Copy LinkCollapse for less details Medal Of Honor Office Dedications
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List description: Since the first Medals of Honor were presented during the Civil War, more than 700 recipients of the award have been immigrants who distinguished themselves by their gallantry during military action.