The Justice Department today announced that as of January 1 all activities connected with alien registration have been taken over by it. Instructions to this effect have been sent to the local post offices by the Post Office Department.
Since alien registration started in 1940, all registrations, fingerprinting and filing of notices and applications have been handled in about 7,500 first class and county seat post offices, which sent the data to the Justice Department for processing and filing. Under the new program aliens will register at the sixty-seven field offices of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, of which alien registration is a part.
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