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Naturalization Records project that have been added to are:
Naturalization Petitions for New York 1844-1815. You can start your search in these records at

http://naturalizationrecords.com/usa/naturalizations.shtml

and just scroll down the page to the ones you want. This latest upload completes 1844-1851 Books 10-12
Also added to on the weekend were Naturalization Petitions for New York, 1850-1860 […]

Passport applications are often a valuable source of genealogical information. NARA has passport applications from October 1795-March 1925. The U. S. Department of State has passport applications from April 1925 to the present. Passports before 1925 have been filmed by NARA and LDS church as passport records, passport registers, and passport indexes. NaturalizationRecords.com website has many passport applications and indexes for all USA online.  

Atlantic County New Jersey Library has an online Immigration & Naturalization Records searchable database of declarations and letters of intent from 1890-1930. For more naturalization records online see NaturalizationRecords.com

An 1862 law allowed honorably discharged Army veterans of any war to petition for naturalization, without having filed a declaration of intent, after only 1 year of residence in the United States. The wording of the 1862 Act stated that any alien, age 21 or up “…who has enlisted, or may enlist in the armies of the United States….” It was designed to encourage enlistment during the Civil War. Aliens serving in the US military did not gain citizenship through service alone ……

In 1926 verification clerks began to record the verification (record check) and naturalization certification activity on each passenger list record. The annotations may be found on any passenger list, before or after 1926, but they all relate to naturalization activity occurring in 1926 or later.