Catalogue description Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: General Department and successors: Registered Files, Migration (MIG Series)

This series contains files of the General Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office and its successors dealing with all aspects of migration between Commonwealth states. It includes files concerning the inter-departmental committee that considered migration policy generally, the renewal of the Empire and Commonwealth Settlement Acts, files concerning the Overseas Migration Board, Lord Mountbatten's mission on Commonwealth immigration, and the impact of the Commonwealth Immigration Act 1962.

For later Commonwealth Office files on migration: FCO 50

Commonwealth Office, General and Migration Department, 1966-1968

Commonwealth Relations Office, General and Migration Department, 1965-1966

Commonwealth Relations Office, General Department, 1947-1962

Commonwealth Relations Office, Nationality and General Department, 1962-1965