Washington Immigration records online may include passenger lists, passport records, border crossings, settlement records, court cases, and more.

These records often provide names, places and dates of birth, ethnic background, date and port/station of arrival, the name of the ship or rail, place of residence, where they were educated, parents’ names, names of children, and more.

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Washington Immigration Records online at the federal level

US – United States Index to Alien Case Files, 1940-2003, index links to images, at FS

US – United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956, index, at FS

US –  United States Border Crossings from Mexico to United States, 1903-1957, index, at FS

US – All U.S., Border Crossings from Mexico to U.S., 1895-1964, at Anc$

US – All U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, results, at Anc$

US – U.S., Border Crossings from Canada to U.S., 1895-1960, at Anc$

US – U.S., Index to Alien Arrivals at Canadian Atlantic and Pacific Seaports, 1904-1944, at Anc$

US – United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, at MH$

US – United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, at Anc$

US – United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, index & images, at FS

US – Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914, at MH

US – Russians Immigrating to the United States, at MH$

US – Czechs Immigrating to America, at MH$

US – Germans Immigrating to the United States, at MH$

US – Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, at MH$

US – Italians Immigrating to the United States, at MH$

US – Transatlantic Migration, North America to Britain and Ireland, 1858 – 1870, at MH$

US – Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1500 – 1900, at MH$

US – Atlantic and Gulf Ports, Passenger List Card Index, 1820-1870, at MH$

US – Ellis Island and Other New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, at MH$

Washington Immigration Records online at the state level

Washington – Washington, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957, index & images, at FS

Washington – Washington, Seattle, Passenger and Crew Lists of Airplanes, 1947-1954, index & images, at FS

Washington – Manifests of Alien Arrivals at Blaine, Washington, at NA

Washington – Washington, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1961, at Anc$

Washington – Customs records of passenger manifests inbound, 1894-1909: Port Townsend, Tacoma, and Seattle, at FS

Washington – Index to Alien Arrivals at Canadian Atlantic and Pacific Seaports, 1904-1944, at Anc$ 

Washington – Passenger lists of vessels arriving at Seattle from U. S. insular possessions, 1908-1917, Port Townsend, Seattle, and Tacoma, at FS

Washington – Seattle and Tacoma, Washington, Passenger and Crew Lists of Airplane Departures, 1947-1957, at Anc$

Washington – Paper Trail Database, at PT 

Washington – North Dakota and Washington, Chinese Passenger Arrivals, 1903-1944, at Anc$

Washington – Tacoma Public Library Ships and Shipping Index, at TPL

Washington – Washington och dess svenska befolkning : af Ernst Skarstedt…Med en färglagd karta öfver Washington, 300 porträtt och 87 andra illustrationer; på förf:s förlag under medverkan af F. W. Lonegren (Washington and its Swedish population: by Ernst Skarstedt … With a colored map of Washington, 300 portraits and 87 other illustrations; på förf: s förlag under medverkan af F. W. Lonegren), at FS

Washington – Certificate of head tax paid by aliens arriving at Seattle from foreign contiguous territory : National Archives microfilm publications, M1365, at FS

Washington – Crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattle, Washington, 1903-1917 : NARA publication M1399, at FS

Washington – [A list of names of the Natches Pass immigrants of 1853], at FS

Washington – Lists of Chinese passengers arriving at Seattle and Port Townsend, 1882- 1916 : NARA RG85 M1364, at FS

Washington – The ox team, or, the Old Oregon Trail, 1852-1906 : an account of the author’s trip across the plains, from the Missouri River to Puget Sound, at the age of twenty-two, with an ox and cow team in 1852, and of his return with an ox team in the year 1906, at the age of seventy-six, with copious excerpts from his journal and other reliable sources of information; a narrative of events and descriptive of present and past conditions, at FS

Washington – Passenger and crew lists of vessels arriving at Seattle, Washington, 1890-1957 : NARA publication M1383, at FS

Washington – Records of the Russian Consular Offices in the United States : NARA publication M1486, 1862-1928, at FS

Washington – Some emigrants to the Northwest, at FS

Washington – Washington, manifests of alien and selected U.S. Citizen arrivals at Anacortes, Danville, Ferry, Laurier, Lynden, Marcus, Metaline Falls, Northport, Oroville, Port Angeles, and Sumas, Washington, 1917-1956, at FS

Washington – Washington, Seattle passenger lists, 1890-1957, at FS

Washington Immigration Records online at the city level

Blaine – Emigration and Immigration – Washington, Blaine Manifests of Alien Arrivals, 1905-1924, at FS

Port Townsend – Emigration and Immigration – Customs Records of Passenger Manifests Inbound, 1894-1909 : Port Townsend, Tacoma, and Seattle [NARA Publication M1484], at FS

Port Townsend – Emigration and Immigration – Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle from U. S. Insular Possessions, 1908-1917 : NARA Publication M1485, at FS

Seattle – Emigration and Immigration – Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, Washington, 1903-1917 : NARA Publication M1399, at FS

Seattle – Emigration and Immigration – Customs Records of Passenger Manifests Inbound, 1894-1909 : Port Townsend, Tacoma, and Seattle [NARA Publication M1484], at FS

Seattle – Emigration and Immigration – Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, Washington, 1890-1957 : NARA Publication M1383, at FS

Seattle – Emigration and Immigration – Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle from U. S. Insular Possessions, 1908-1917 : NARA Publication M1485, at FS

Seattle – Emigration and Immigration – Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle, Washington : NARA M1398, 1949-1954, at FS

Seattle – Emigration and Immigration – Washington, King County, Seattle, Alien and Japanese American Registration Forms, 1942-1946, at FS

Seattle – Emigration and Immigration – Washington, Seattle Passenger Lists : COLLECTION RECORD, 1890-1957, at FS

Seattle – Emigration and Immigration – Washington, Seattle, Passenger and Crew Lists of Airplanes, 1947-1954, at FS

Seattle – Emigration and Immigration – Washington, Seattle, Passenger and Crew Lists of Airplanes, 1947-1954, at FS

Tacoma – Emigration and Immigration – Customs Records of Passenger Manifests Inbound, 1894-1909 : Port Townsend, Tacoma, and Seattle [NARA Publication M1484], at FS

Tacoma – Emigration and Immigration – Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Seattle from U. S. Insular Possessions, 1908-1917 : NARA Publication M1485, at FS

Tacoma – Emigration and Immigration – Washington, Pierce County, Tacoma, Naturalization Records, 1913-1911, at FS