Immigrants check in with passports and visas hoping that all paperwork is in order. Doctors check immigrants for head lice. Doctors reject some immigrants for medical reasons. Immigrants must pass a mental test. Those who don't pass could be refused entrance into the United States.
Immigrants show papers to another Ellis Island official and answer more questions.
After exchanging their currency for the new and often confusing U.S. money, the immigrants are ready to start new lives in America.