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This file contains correspondence between the Nansen Office for Refugees Delegation in Berlin and the Nansen Office in Geneva relating to Russian and Armenian children in French agricultural training centres.

This file contains correspondence between the Nansen Office for Refugees Delegation in Berlin, the ILO Refugee Service in Geneva, the German and Brazilian authorities and the Sao Paulo Railway Company.

Correspondence with the Geneva Office and the Japanese authorities; press cuttings.

This file contains various documents relating to Refugees and their Work Authorisation, Lineage, Stay, School, Passport, as well as Correspondence, Press Cuttings, Notes, Regulations, etc.

Correspondence with other delegations concerning forced repatriation, Russian officers turned back by Austrian authorities, expulsion decrees, the situation of Russian refugees in Poland (illegal entries), Latvia and Turkey. This file includes references to Turkish legal settlements and regulations.

This file contains various types of correspondence, press cuttings and law extracts regarding unemployment in Austria. Correspondence is exchanged between the head of the International Labour Office and the Austrian Chancellor to ensure the Armenian and Russian refugees be protected.

This file contains registration slips with information on the religion and profession of refugees, accounting details, requests for visas, searches for missing refugees.

It contains file 45/20773/15833, correspondence from the Département fédéral de Justice et Police and the Département Politique fédéral, sample of the identity certificates delivered by the Swiss government, press clippings (Schweizerische Republikanische Blätter), regarding transit visas and the decision of adhesion notified 20 Oct. 1922 and enforced 1 Jan. 1923.

This file documents the decision of the Turkish government to issue special passports that are in agreement with the identity certificates system adopted by the Inter-governmental conference held at Geneva, July 3rd-5th, 1922, as per circular letter of 29 Jan. 1924. Collective passports are issued by the HCR for group evacuations. It contains correspondence, memoranda and notes, exchanges between the Legal section (Dr. van Hamel) and Major T.F. Johnson of the Refugee Service, between Consuls and the Secretary-General, the delegate S. Lawford Childs and other delegations of the HCR. The question of the status of Armenian and Georgian refugees is raised as well as of new Turkish laws making the collective passport procedure much more lengthy and expensive.