He/ she should be under age 19 at the end of the year, or under age 24 and a be a full-time student for at least five months out of the year, or any age and totally and permanently disabled.
The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor FrÃ©dÃ©ric Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886. The Statue of Liberty is a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess. She holds a torch above her head, and in her left arm carries a tabula ansata inscribed July 4, 1776, the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
The sculptor who masterminded the Statue of Liberty, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, envisioned it as a symbol of liberty, hence the official name of âLiberty Enlightening the Worldâ. But his symbol was of liberty spreading outwards to the world from America, rather than liberty for those incoming. Ellis Island only became the first stop for immigrants in 1892, i.e. six years after the statue was erected, remaining open for business until 1954.