Over 25 million Italians have emigrated between 1861 and 1960 with a migration boom between 1871 and 1915 when over 13,5 million emigrants left the country for European and overseas destinations.
Please send me a certificate of non-existence for the immigrant listed in the enclosed letter.
The case reference number is GEN-XXXXXXXX.
Because this certificate of non-existence is being used as part of an application for American-Italian dual citizenship I would appreciate if the wording on line four - "That after a diligent search was performed in these database system; no record is found to exist relating to the subject listed below" to have “and that he did not become a United States Citizen” included in that line if possible.
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I don't have a scanner available to show you the actual letter but basically it will be a reply from the Chief.
Lines one through three will describe the authority of the Chief, what records the service keeps and what indexes they searched.
The end of the letter should read:
4. That after a diligent search was performed in these database systems, no record was found to exist indicating that the subject listed below obtained naturalization as a a citizen of the United States.
The older generations who lived in southern Italy certainly remember the sound of the bells or the siren that occurred at various times of the day. Life was marked by simple and repetitive gestures: work, the relationship with nature, sharing with the family and the people of the small villages. Now...