[Genealib] War Bride

[Claire Kluskens]

Your patron should send a Freedom of Information Act request  
(requesting "all records") to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration  
Services (the former Immigration and Naturalization Service).  If the  
mother was born less than 100 years ago, the patron should send some  
proof of death (the newspaper death notice should be fine). The INS  
should have an A-file ("alien file") on the mother.

An A-file is:

An Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) case file containing all
records (except naturalization) relating to an individual immigrant  
since
April 1, 1944, and including naturalization records since April 1,  
1956.  Any
immigrant who arrived or whose case was opened after April 1, 1944,  
should
have records filed within the A-File system.  A-Files were decentralized
between 1950 and 1955 and thereafter maintained by the various INS Files
Control Offices (FCO's).  In 1999, INS began to re-centralize A-Files  
at a
National INS Records Center.  A-Files are identified by Alien  
Registration
Number, are indexed by name, date of birth, and place of birth, and  
remain
subject to INS Freedom of Information/Privacy Act restrictions.


Your patron can use the Form G-639 <http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/ 
formsfee/forms/files/g-639.pdf>
and send to

Immigration and Naturalization Service
Attn:  FOIA/PA Office
425 Eye St. NW
Washington, DC 20536


Claire Kluskens
NARA


On Oct 25, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Dorothy Demarest wrote:

> Hello, I hope someone can help with this question. I am helping a  
> patron whose mother was a WW II German war bride. He mother told  
> her she came over on a troop transport ship after the war with 1 or  
> 2 small children. She married a US soldier in Germany. His military  
> records were apparently destroyed in St. Louis so that avenue  
> appears to be blocked. Her mother lived in Chicago but never became  
> a US citizen. Where can she go for information about her mother?
>
>
>
> Thank you very much for any suggestions.
>
>
>
> Dottie Demarest
>
> East Central Georgia Reginal Library
>
> demarestd at ecgrl.org
>
> 706 821-2600 Fax 706 821-2629
>

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