> Dear list members, > > Last night I read something on the PAWESTMO list that was really > exciting so I sent to message to all of the mailing lists I am on > before I went to the site. After going to the, now, BCIS site I am > forced to write this message. > > The address for the INS, now Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration > Services (BCIS), web site is http://www.immigration.gov/graphics/index.htm > > I went to the site after I had mailed my "discovery". There is a very > large *caveat. This site provides immigration information under the > Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA). Upon going to that part of the BCIS > site I printed out the 4 page application. Two of those pages were > instructions. At the top left of the first page of instructions it is > written: > > Are There Cases When You Do Not Use This Form? > > Do not use this form: > (1) To determine status of pending applications, write to the office > where the appellation was filed or call the nearest INS office; > (2) For Consular notification of visa petition approval, use Form I-824 > (Application for Action on an Approved Application or Petition); > (3) For the return of original documents, use Form G-884 (Request for > Return of Original Documents); > *(4) For records of naturalization prior to September 27, 1906, write to > the clerk of the court where naturalization occurred; or > *(5) For information on INS arrivals prior to December 1982, Write to > the National Archives. > > You have to be in a very special category to be able to get > naturalization records from the INS! > > Dorothy J. Schendel wondrful@sbcglobal.net >