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An affidavit translated from the original Slovak attesting to Czech immigrant Stephen Strelec's ability to financially support his wife and two daughters upon their arrival to the U.S.

Isela Garcia, 23, of Little Village, Chicago, came to the United States with her parents when she was nine years old, and spent Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at Chicago's Navy Pier, preparing her application for deferred deportation. Thousands of…

Crowds gathered in Washington D.C., not just to protest the Muslim ban, but the White House’s attitudes and actions towards immigrants.

Doctor Seo Jae-pil (Philip Jaisohn), the son of a Korean aristocrat and wife Muriel Armstrong, the niece of President James Buchanan. First Korean to become American Citizen.

My grandparents, father, and aunt, ca. 1935. I don't know all the details, but apparently my grandfather spent much of the '20s working construction in the States, and would go back to Italy periodically. I guess Pops was conceived on one of those…

McBeth's maternal kin.

Shannon Coppa posted a photo and story of her refugee great grandparent's family from the Ottoman Empire.

Jennifer Brown Hills posted to Facebook her Italian grandparent's story and photo. Annina with her three children, Francesco, Giovanni, and Michelina after World War II.