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Series
Home Office: Immigration (IMG Symbol Series) Files
Catalogue reference: HO 394
What's it about?
HO 394
This series contains files from the Home Office IMG (Immigration) file series created by the Immigration and Nationality Department which was formed in 1962. The files relate to policy and casework on a wide range of immigration issues.
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 394
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Immigration (IMG Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1960-1998
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files from the Home Office IMG (Immigration) file series created by the Immigration and Nationality Department which was formed in 1962. The files relate to policy and casework on a wide range of immigration issues.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The inclusion of a date following a file number (eg. IMG 47/72/7(61)) indicates the year in which the file is supposed to have been created, but often it only indicates the year in which the first subfile was raised on a particular subject.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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This file series (IMG) was preceeded by the ALG (Aliens General) series created by the Aliens Department, and these files are in: HO 352
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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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IMG 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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1019 file(s)
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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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The IMG series succeeded the ALG (Aliens General) series and ALG files are in HO 352
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9258/
Catalogue hierarchy
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Home Office: Immigration (IMG Symbol Series) Files
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