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Citizenship and migration

How to search the archives for migration information like passenger lists, naturalisation and citizenship files, and refugee and immigrant information.

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Citizenship

A guide to naturalisation files, citizenship files and 'alien' (non-citizen) records

Migration

On this page you’ll find information about migrants and immigration into New Zealand from the 1840s onwards when Pākehā settlement began.

Searching passenger lists

Find out about the passenger lists in our archives and how to search them.