{"id":1163,"date":"2018-08-13T21:04:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T21:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2019-03-09T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T10:51:00","slug":"ellis-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/en\/others\/ellis-island\/","title":{"rendered":"\u3010Visiting Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration in New York\u3011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1167 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1787-e1534193425875.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1787-e1534193425875.jpg 480w, https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1787-e1534193425875-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ellis Island is located next to Liberty Island, home to the Statue of Liberty.\u00a0 A total of around 12 million people who immigrated into the USA were inspected at Ellis Island since 1892.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1176 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1784-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1784-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1784-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most of the\u00a0immigrants were European.\u00a0 Upon arrival at Ellis island, doctors conducted a 6-second medical check, followed by a legal inspection.\u00a0 20% were held back for further medical or legal examination.\u00a0 They were detained, hospitalized or appealed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1170 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1786.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1786.jpg 640w, https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1786-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Only about 2% were denied entry. One third stayed in New York City; others headed elsewhere.\u00a0 Associations which supported new immigrants welcomed new people.\u00a0 Since then, the US consulates assumed this responsibility instead. In 1954, the Ellis Island facility closed\u00a0down permanently.<\/p>\n<p>It might be because of my profession, but a tour of the Ellis Island was worth as much as or more than the Liberty Island with the Statue of Liberty. \u00a0Ellis Island is a highly recommended spot to visit if you are interested in.<\/p>\n<p>Ellis Island website:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/elis\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/elis\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1169 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1775.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1775.jpg 640w, https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1775-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1168 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1778.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1778.jpg 640w, https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_1778-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellis Island is located next to Liberty Island, home to the Statue of Liberty. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A total of around 12 million people who immigrated into the USA were inspected at Ellis Island since 1892.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/1645\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1200\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yupasscanada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}