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Inspección de inmigración en el puerto de Santos: This archive holds this series issued by the Secretariat of the agricultural and provisions sections. It contains monthly tables of migratory movements, immigrant entry certificates and passenger lists. The archive website has a specific portal for immigration to São Paulo, with an emigrant search engine. Access to this website is via: http://www.arquivoestado.sp.gov.br/imigracao/presenca.php
Inspección de inmigración en el puerto de Santos: This archive holds this series issued by the Secretariat of the agricultural and provisions sections. It contains monthly tables of migratory movements, immigrant entry certificates and passenger lists. The archive website has a specific portal for immigration to São Paulo, with an emigrant search engine. Access to this website is via: http://www.arquivoestado.sp.gov.br/imigracao/presenca.php
 
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This archive contains a considerable number of extremely important documents on this subject . Users have access to several sets of documents concerning the entry of immigrants into Brazil. Those particularly worthy of mention are:
 
Departamento Nacional do Povoamento
This collection holds the immigrant registers of the Ilha das Flores and Pinheiro centres, as well as the Registers of the Rio de Janeiro Central Immigration Agency Register. The registers held date from 1875 to 1974.
 
División de Policía Marítima, Aérea y de Fronteras.
This contains the lists of passengers disembarking in Brazilian ports and those from planes landing at its airports. These lists contain a wealth of information for the study of emigration, with details including the entry date and name of the ship/plane, its place of departure and the personal details of the passengers carried. The archive holds passenger lists from 1875 to 1974 for the following ports: Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Recife, São Francisco do Sul, Esperança, Florianópolis, Uruguaiana, Salvador, Aquidauana, Corumbá, Porto Coutinho, Foz do Iguaçu, Guajará-Mirim, Belém, Manaus and Paraguaná.
 
Servicio de Policía Marítima, Aérea y de Fronteras. Registro Nacional de Extranjeros
This Register, created by Federal Decree no. 3010 of 20 August 1938, made it compulsory for all foreign nationals to register at their local police station, where they were issued with a document certifying their temporary or permanent residence in Brazilian Federal Territory. This foreign identity document was known for a long time as form 19. The Arquivo Nacional holds this documentation, which comes from the Federal Police Force, for the period spanning from 1838 to 1987.
 
Inspetoria Geral das Terras e Colonizaçao
This collection contains the lists of immigrants disembarking in the port of Rio de Janeiro between March 1817 and 1896.
 
Policía da Corte
This contains foreign national registration numbers and documents related to the presentation and authorisation of passports between 1808 and 1880.
 
Serie Agricultura- Terras Públicas e Colonizaçao
The most important documents here are those dealing with colonist settlement licences, the location of foreign workers in several provinces, the list of Spanish immigrant families camped at Fort Santa Teresa, etc. This series dates from 1819 to 1890.
 
Serie Interior-Extranjeros
These are the foreigner deportation files and authorisations to remain in Brazil between 1851 and 1947.
 
Serie Interior-Nacionalidades
This contains the application files for Brazilian citizenship (naturalisation).


==Finding the Town of Origin in Brazil==
==Finding the Town of Origin in Brazil==
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