Jung Look Moy (File 15287/8-17)
Jung Look Moy, a Chinese merchant's wife, and her three children sailed on the Tenyo Maru from Hong Kong to join her husband Louie Gar Fun, who ran a lodging house and store in Boise, Idaho. Jung Look Moy provided copious amounts of documentation to verify their claims for admission. They gave the immigration service notarized affidavits from white acquaintances in Idaho, including one from the chief of police in Boise and another from the U.S. commissioner for the district of Idaho. They also hired a prominent immigration lawyer. After three months of interrogation and detention, they were admitted into the country on parole in August 1916 Immigrant inspectors conducted a series of visits to the Louie family in Boise to observe whether they acted and lived as a family and conducted several other interviews with witnesses for the family in Boise, Hong Kong, and China.
Above information adapted from:
Lee, Erika, and Judy Yung. Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010. Print. p. 30-31
To view Jung Look Moy's original case file photographed at the National Archives at San Francisco click here.
Jung Look Moy, a Chinese merchant's wife, and her three children sailed on the Tenyo Maru from Hong Kong to join her husband Louie Gar Fun, who ran a lodging house and store in Boise, Idaho. Jung Look Moy provided copious amounts of documentation to verify their claims for admission. They gave the immigration service notarized affidavits from white acquaintances in Idaho, including one from the chief of police in Boise and another from the U.S. commissioner for the district of Idaho. They also hired a prominent immigration lawyer. After three months of interrogation and detention, they were admitted into the country on parole in August 1916 Immigrant inspectors conducted a series of visits to the Louie family in Boise to observe whether they acted and lived as a family and conducted several other interviews with witnesses for the family in Boise, Hong Kong, and China.
Above information adapted from:
Lee, Erika, and Judy Yung. Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010. Print. p. 30-31
To view Jung Look Moy's original case file photographed at the National Archives at San Francisco click here.