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Located in San Francisco Bay, the Angel Island Immigration Station served as an immigration port between 1910 and 1940. Approximately 500,000 immigrants from 80 countries were processed, detained, and/or interrogated at the site. Learn more about the Angel Island Immigration Station.
Between 1910 and 1940, approximately 500,000 immigrants crossed the Pacific Ocean for a chance at a new life in America. Now, you have an opportunity to walk in their footsteps by visiting the Angel Island Immigration Station, once known as the “Ellis Island of the West,” located in the heart of San Francisco Bay.
The Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation works to bring its history to light and to make its lessons part of our national dialogue about the complicated intersection of race, immigration and the American identity.
Mar 26, 2021 · Located in San Francisco Bay, the Angel Island Immigration Station served as the main immigration facility on the West Coast of the United States from 1910 to 1940. Many immigrants from...
Angel Island Immigration Station was an immigration station in San Francisco Bay which operated from January 21, 1910, to November 5, 1940, where immigrants entering the United States were detained and interrogated.
Angel Island Immigration Station, principal immigration facility on the U.S. West Coast from 1910 to 1940, where Asian immigrants were detained. It functioned as both an immigration and deportation facility, at which some 175,000 Chinese and about 60,000 Japanese immigrants were detained under oppressive conditions.
The U.S. Immigration Station, Angel Island, a National Historic Landmark, is located in Angel Island State Park, on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay, CA. Additional information is available on the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation website.
AIISF is the non-profit partner of California State Parks and the National Park Service in the work to restore the historic Immigration Station at Angel Island. AIISF’s mission includes both the preservation of the site and education about the role of Pacific Rim immigration in U.S. history.
Mar 31, 2023 · For three decades, from 1910 to 1940, the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay stood guard as the Pacific Coast’s major entry point for immigrants to the United States—the door through which over a half–million Asians and others from the Pacific rim entered the United States to make new lives for themselves.
ANGEL ISLAND IMMIGRATION STATION MUSEUM (AIIM) Hours: Wednesday through Friday, 11:00 am to 2:30 pm; Saturday through Sunday, and holidays, 11:00 am to 3:30 pm; Admission is Free; visits are self-guided (no tours available) Getting to the United States Immigration Station (USIS)
