Name/Title
Application of Lawfully Domiciled Chinese Merchant, Teacher, or Student, for Reinvestigation of Status for Pon BarkEntry/Object ID
2017.4.1Scope and Content
The document is a form of Application of Lawfully Domiciled Chinese Merchant, Teacher, or Student, for Reinvestigation of Status in 1922. Pon Bark, the applicant, applied to travel aboard and reenter the US through the Chinese port of entry of San Francisco. Pon Bark was claimed a merchant, living in Oakland, CA, and to own a business of Him Sang & Co. in Oakland. The document tells a story of a Chinese immigrant in 20s and provides information of immigration policy to American Chinese in 1920s in San Francisco.