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Home / About us / Publications / Fact sheets / On migration, citizenship & travel

Fact sheets on migration, citizenship and travel

Contents
  • Overview of holdings
  • Migration by nationality or migration scheme
  • Applying to migrate
  • Arriving and departing
  • Naturalisation and citizenship
  • Internees, aliens and prisoners of war (POW)

Overview of holdings

  • Immigration records
  • Immigration Photographic Archive

Migration by nationality or migration scheme

  • Records of British migrants held in Canberra
  • Child migration to Australia
  • Child migrant records held in Sydney
  • Dutch migration records held in Sydney 

Records of Italian migration held in:

  • Brisbane
  • Sydney 
  • Perth

Applying to migrate

Migrant selection documents held in:

  • Adelaide
  • Canberra
  • Perth

Arriving and departing

  • Migrant accommodation, New South Wales, 1946–78
  • North Head Quarantine Station, Sydney
  • Customs shipping records, Sydney 
  • Maritime records, Hobart
  • Index to passenger arrivals

Passenger records held in:

  • Brisbane
  • Canberra
  • Hobart
  • Melbourne
  • Perth
  • Sydney

Naturalisation and citizenship

  • Citizenship in Australia
  • Naturalisation records held in Canberra

Internees, aliens and prisoners of war (POW)

  • Civil Aliens Corps, Perth
  • Alien registration records held in Perth
  • Wartime internee, alien and POW records held in Perth

World War I internee, alien and POW records held in:

  • Adelaide
  • Canberra
  • Sydney

World War II internee, alien and POW records in:

  • Adelaide
  • Canberra
  • Sydney
 
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