Organizational Timeline
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1891 |
Office of Superintendent of Immigration created and placed in the Treasury Department. |
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1895
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Office of Superintendent of Immigration upgraded to Bureau of Immigration. |
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1903 |
Bureau of Immigration transferred to the newly created Department of Commerce and Labor. |
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| 1906 |
Federal Naturalization Service created and Bureau of Immigration became the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. |
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1913 |
Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization divided into separate Bureaus – the Bureau of Immigration and the Bureau of Naturalization – and placed in the new Department of Labor. |
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1924 |
U.S. Border Patrol created within the Bureau of Immigration. |
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| 1933 |
The Bureau of Immigration and the Bureau of Naturalization reunited into a single agency, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). |
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1940 |
The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) transferred from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice. |
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2003 |
The INS was abolished and its functions placed under three agencies – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) – within the newly created Department of Homeland Security. |
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