Aliens' certificates of registration by country

The paper a foreigner living in the country carried for the police: the particulars, the endorsements at each move, the rules he had to keep.

Bearer prints it for 2 offices: Commonwealth of Australia, United Kingdom. Each is read off a document of the time or reconstructed on the country's law, and says which.

Bearer makes an investigator's papers for Call of Cthulhu and any 1920s or 1930s tabletop campaign: the passport a consul would have filled in, with the visas and frontier stamps a campaign leaves in it, and the permits, certificates and tickets of the period, to print or to share.

An example

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Every office Bearer prints it for

Each version in full

• The Australian certificate of registration of alien
• The alien's certificate of registration

Sources

• Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia; Home and Territories, Aliens Registration Regulations, Statutory Rules 1921 No. 17, in operation 20 January 1921; the Schedule: Forms A1, A2 (applications), B1 (Certificate of Registration of Alien, with the Notice to Aliens and, on the back, Registered Changes of Abode), B2 (alien seaman), C, D, E (read directly)
• Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Aliens Registration Act 1920 (Commonwealth of Australia), No. 49 of 1920, assented 2 December 1920; an alien is any person over sixteen not of British nationality, the wife of an alien included (s. 3); registration at the police station nearest the place of abode, or on board at the first port of call (ss. 6-8); signature and prints of fingers and thumbs (s. 9); the certificate (s. 10); change of abode (s. 11); change of name (s. 12); the certificate produced on demand and given up on leaving (s. 14) (read directly)
• Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Aliens Registration Act Suspension Act 1926, No. 17 of 1926, s. 2: the operation of the Aliens Registration Act 1920 suspended until a date to be fixed by Proclamation; assented 4 June 1926 (read directly)
• Birmingham City Police; the booklet printed in January 1927 ("(23386A) Wt 20053/C832 25,000 Bks 1/27 H & J, Ld Gp 191"); scanned from the original, on Wikimedia Commons (CC0), Aliens Order, 1920: Certificate of Registration no. 336594, issued at Birmingham on 18 February 1928, front cover: No., Aliens Order, 1920., CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION, to be produced when the holder (a) reports that he is about to change his residence, (b) reports his arrival in a new district, (c) presents himself at a police station about his registration, (d) the Police or an Immigration Officer demand it; inside of the cover: registration certificate no., issued at, on, name (surname first in Roman capitals), alias, left thumb print (if unable to sign name in English characters), photograph, signature of holder; page 1: nationality, born on, in, previous nationality, profession or occupation, address of residence, arrived in United Kingdom on, address of last residence outside U.K., government service, passport or other papers as to nationality and identity; pages 2 on: endorsements and remarks (the police's stamp for a change of address); back cover: notice to the holder of this certificate, six rules and the penalties. (read directly)

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