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Customers seeking to review court cases need to contact the court directly to retrieve the case file and review it at the court. For a fee however, NARA will provide copies of court case files, docket sheets or documents directly by fax, mail and scan order services.

SmartScan is a NARA service in which the specific paper documents are located, pulled and scanned into a PDF format then transmitted to the court via email. Upon payment of the applicable fees, the court will then email the requesting party the documents. There is a limit of pages to utilize SmartScan. Requests over pages will require the records to be shipped to the Court. The court will contact you with the total fee due and after payment, your records will be delivered to you via email.

Boston; Worcester; or Springfield 2. The day period may be extended upon written request for an additional 30 days. If the requested materials are not viewed within the day period or any extension thereof, they will be returned. The researcher has the responsibility to contact the Department of State with a NARA certified copy to complete the process of obtaining an apostille.

NARA maintains separate indexes for each court; there is no centralized index to our holdings. In order to conduct a search, researchers need to inform NARA staff where a person lived city and state while in the United States. Most NARA research facilities only hold the naturalization records filed in federal courts, but a few offices do hold state and county naturalization records. Although there can be inaccuracies in naturalization records, the records cannot be changed or corrected by National Archives staff because they are historic documents that are maintained as they were created by the courts.

Normally vital records are not available through the National Archives within our Federal court holdings, but there are occasions where vital records can appear within an Alien File A-File. Staff at all field locations will certify the Census for persons visiting the research room in person during regular business hours. NARA staff are limited to explaining the contents of the records in its holdings and other research-related topics.

Staff may not advise individuals on citizenship matters or provide interpretation of laws pertaining to dual citizenship. Top Skip to main content.

Responsibility for naturalization proceedings transferred from the Federal courts to the Immigration and Naturalization Service INS at that time. NARA does not hold naturalization records from U. District Courts post October Can NARA issue a certification of non-existence of a naturalization record? Can NARA provide me with a certified negative search letter? Can NARA apostille a certified copy of a naturalization record?

Can NARA search all of their naturalization indexes for me? My ancestor naturalized in a county court, does NARA have their record?

Can NARA staff correct or change inaccurate information on naturalization records? How about vital records from the United States? See information below about how to obtain vital records: US vital records: In the United States, birth, marriage, and death records are considered state or local records rather than Federal or national. Some U. Embassy pages contain instructions for how to obtain vital records ex.

Embassy and Consulate in Italy. Every country is different. Researchers have to determine how to obtain records from the appropriate government agency. Can any NARA research facility provide me with a certified copy of the census?