Witness Attestation for Sue Ah Yen

Title

Description

The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act was passed to curb immigrant laborers from China from entering the United States. Part of this law denied reentry to Chinese laborers leaving the United States. As a result, Chinese merchants, like Sue Ah Yen needed to file an application for leave and reentry to the United States before traveling internationally. This application required attestations and interviews vouching for the Chinese traveler's legal residence in the United States. This is attestation is part of an application for leave in 1918.

Creator

United States. Department of Labor. Immigration Service.

Source

National Archives at Seattle, Chinese Exclusion Case Files, Case 31/94. For more information about the Chinese Exclusion Act Case Files, see: https://www.archives.gov/seattle/finding-aids/chinese-exclusion-act

Date

1918 July 15

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Identifier

NARASeattle_31-94_19180715

Collection

Asian Americans in Spokane

Citation

United States. Department of Labor. Immigration Service., “Witness Attestation for Sue Ah Yen,” Spokane Public Library, accessed May 21, 2026, https://lange.spokanelibrary.org/items/show/5986.