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Series
Home Office: Aliens Department and Immigration and Nationality Department: Organisation...
Catalogue reference: HO 367
What's it about?
HO 367
The ALO series originated in 1961 to accommodate the general establishment matters of the Aliens Department. The ALO series changed to IMO after the Aliens Department became known as the Immigration and Nationality Department in 1962.The files...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HO 367
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Aliens Department and Immigration and Nationality Department: Organisation (ALO and IMO Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1939-1989
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Description (What the record is about)
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The ALO series originated in 1961 to accommodate the general establishment matters of the Aliens Department. The ALO series changed to IMO after the Aliens Department became known as the Immigration and Nationality Department in 1962.
The files selected include guidance notes for departmental officers on processing casework, staff training and the organisation of parts of the immigration system and its paperwork.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The file references consist of two numbers only, plus an overyear which is supposed to indicate the year in which the file is opened, but which was misused and means very little - in the listing this appears as a bracketed number at the end of each file reference - "135/23(61)" indicates the file was originally reference IMO/61 135/23.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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ALO and IMO Symbol file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Home Office, Aliens Department (B Department), 1913-1962
- Home Office, Immigration and Nationality Department, 1962-1962
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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34 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1996 Home Office
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Migration
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9231/
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