Travel back to Galicia -Paper trail?

[Tempo]

My Grandfather and several relatives travelled back to Europe to visit during the period from 1907-1913. Were they required to apply for US passports? What kind of paper trail would they have left in order to make the trip to Europe?

Thank you

[mgszk]

i think they needed passports...would you like me to see if i can find them in the passports on ancestry??

[Hannia]

If they were naturalized, they would have traveled w/a US passport and if their status
was non-resident, they were able to travel w/an INTENT TO RETURN, a temporary
visit document issued by INS. I think it still works the same way today.

[Tempo]

I checked out the ancestry.com site. They were at the time non residents so there were no passports involved as you have noted Hannia. Are there old Intent to Return records archived somewhere?

Thank you

[Hannia]

My quess is that they can probably be found @NARA. Run a SEARCH for Passports???

National Archives and Records Administration