Catalogue description Home Office: Aliens, General Matters (ALG Symbol Series) Files

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Details of HO 352
Reference: HO 352
Title: Home Office: Aliens, General Matters (ALG Symbol Series) Files
Description:

This series contains files from the Home Office ALG (Aliens General) series created by the Aliens Department which in 1962 became the Immigration and Nationality Department. The files relate to general establishment matters, policy and casework on a variety of immigration and aliens issues.

Date: 1928-1975
Arrangement:

The inclusion of a date following a file number (eg. ALG 1/1/3(60)) 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.

Related material:

The ALG series was succeeded by the IMG (Immigration) series and these files are in HO 394

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ALG Symbol file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Home Office, Aliens Department (B Department), 1913-1962

Home Office, Immigration and Nationality Department, 1962-

Physical description: 158 file(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1962 the Aliens Department merged with the Naturalisation and Nationality Division and was renamed the Immigration and Nationality Department.

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