Share Your Immigration & Citizenship Stories

About This Project

Los Angeles is a county of immigrants, and each has a unique and wonderful story to tell. We want to hear yours! Do you remember the day you left? How did you feel when you first became a naturalized citizen? No matter what your country of origin or current status, please consider sharing your journey with us. You can submit your thoughts in any format you like; we’ll be accepting written stories, images, audio, and even video. Stories will then be posted on our LA County Library Community Collections so others can learn and grow from you experiences.

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Submission Guidelines

Sharing Your Content

Additional Information

Do you need some help getting started? Tell us about:

  • Where were you born?
  • What was your family like?
  • What made you want to immigrate?
  • What was the journey like?
  • How did you feel when you arrived?
  • How did it feel to become a naturalized citizen?

More Details:

  • All ages are welcome to participate.
  • Written stories, images, audio, and video submissions accepted
  • Please limit audio and visual submissions to 5 minutes or less.
File Types Accepted

MP3, MP4, JPEG, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TIF, EPUB2, EPUB3, PDF, JPG/JPEG, MPG, MOV, AVI, 3GP, FLV, DIVX, WEBM, OGG