Maternal Grandmother Immigration documents

 I received an email from MyHeritage informing me that they have recently come upon some records for my grandmother.  I occasionally receive notification emails like this from MyHeritage for my ancestors.  These emails are formulated when new documents have been uploaded by someone else, some agency has released documents, or some other way where new documents are found.

I was particularly excited about this email received as the documents that MyHeritage had uncovered were some Immigration records on my maternal Grandmother.  I am first generation American in my family, so that means my parents had to immigrate to the states at some point.

My father immigrated from Germany with his parents when he was 3 years old.  My mother immigrated from the Netherlands when she was in her 20s with her mother and sister.  Given my parents and grandparents all immigrated I am particularly eager to find any immigration records for them. I have done some preliminary searches to no avail.  

I was quite excited when I finally received these documents.  It's a hodgepodge of different type of documents. Civil Registries from Rotterdam, the city where she was born and then one from the city in which she currently resided.  Report from the police department stating that she was in good standing, different VISA applications, Certificate of Arrival and Alien Registration Card.  These documents are so cool.  

Here are a few of the documents included in the package:

Curious that both cities grandma lived in required them to attest to her "nature"

This document I found particularly intriguing.  The fact that they reported on her attitude towards their occupation by the Germans during the war.  I wonder if her attitude would be different would she have been able to leave?

Her official VISA application. Isn't she beautiful?

Her arrival document

Registration Card

Unfortunately, not included in this package are her Naturalization paperwork. I guess you first have to apply to become a citizen and then once you are finally declared citizen you get some paperwork on that too.  I'll need to continue searching the records, at least I know where I should start looking.  

In the meantime, I'd love to get these documents for my mother.  I searched in the appropriate databases online and unfortunately, my mother's paperwork is not yet available online. So, I submitted a request online for her paperwork.  It's been a month since I requested the info and I'm starting to wonder what's going on.  Apparently, they are short staffed and hence it will take many many months to fulfill my request.  I guess I need to be patient.  I guess I'll just wait then.  Not like I don't have other things I can do in the meantime.  😇