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.

Armenian refugee, coming from Turkey, who requested the English nationality after he got married with an English woman.

This file contains an Appeal on behalf of the refugees in Asia Minor and Greece for resettlement and protection done by Dr. Nansen. it also contains various documents on the work of the Nansen Office for Refugees.

File contains:

• League of Nations document C.137.M.71.1935.XII of 29 March 1935 "Report of the Inter-Governmental Advisory Commission for Refugees on the work of its Seventh Session
• League of Nations document C.200.1935.XII of 16 May 1935 "Work of the Inter-Governmental Advisory Commission for Refugees - Seventh Session (March 1935) - Report by the Representative of Mexico"
• Extract from Minutes of the First Meeting of the 86th Session of the Council, 20 May 1935 "Russian, Armenian, Assyrian, Assyro-Chaldean and Turkish refugees - Work of the Inter-governmental Advisory Commission for refugees during its Seventh session"
• various drafts regarding the settlement of Russian, Armenian, Assyrian, Assyro-Chaldean and Turkish refugees, as well as the refugees from the Saar and the Nansen passport
• League of Nations document C.L.94.1935.XII "Russian, Armenian, Assyrian, Assyro-Chaldean and Turkish refugees - Report of the Inter-governmental Advisory Commission for refugees on the work of its Seventh session".