Papua New Guinea Emigration and Immigration

Immigration records
Accessibility: By personal visit or hire a researcher. Archives generally do not do research.

Record type: Record of immigrants, foreign residents, and citizens.

Time Period: 1890-present.

Content: Immigrant’s name, age, occupation, birth date and place, former residence, destination; wife’s name, childrens’ given names and ages or number of children; religion, race, nationality, sometimes picture. Chinese immigration records give names and places in Chinese characters.

Location: National Archives, municipal archives, Chinese community kapitans. Reliability: Good.

Research use: Very valuable for making proper connections to place of origin in other countries.